This set me thinking about friendships in general. What makes a good friendship? There are different kinds of friendship; the friends you don't actually see very often but when you do see them it is just like you saw them the day before (like my recent visitor), there are childhood friends who you met perhaps at primary school / secondary school / college and have remained friends throughout all the different changes to your lives since then, there are new friends who you may have met through your work / church / at the pub / evening class or some such environment, there are friends who will stick by you through the good times and the bad, then of course there are the "fair weather" friends who are there for you when everything is going swimmingly but are nowhere to be seen in times of difficulty.
I think our friends are made up of a mixture of all of these different kinds of friends. I know that I have friends from all of these quarters.
It is much the same with our charity; we have supporters (friends) who have been with us from the start and have stuck by us, supporting us through thick and thin, we have made new friends as the charity has grown who we have met whilst giving talks at different organisations, friends who have joined us when donating a shoebox to our 'Love in a Box' appeal or friends who have heard about our work and befriended us. Sadly, we also have some "fair weather friends" too!
The children in our care need lots of friends, friends who will take the time to send them a card just to say hello or a card on their birthdays and at Christmas, friends who will help to raise the funds to look after them They have, in their short lives, already met up with too many "fair weather friends" - they need the kind that will stick with them through thick and thin. Why not introduce your friends to our children so that they can make new friends?
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