Be Like Mike

My wife and I came to Portland this week. She had her 6 week appointment with the surgeon from her cancer surgery. She was healed of cancer, but they still wanted to insure that she was healing correctly from the surgery. We stayed over to spend time with family. I also wanted to spend time with my friend Mike. He lives in Portland and even though we talk 4 or 5 times a week on the phone, it’s not the same as being with him and just spending time together.

While we were together Mike asked me what I wanted to do. I responded and said I didn’t care I just wanted to spend time with him today. So we got coffee and went to the landscape store and got lights and Mike showed me his new shed had built. I wish I could build things and be as handy as Mike and my other friend Rich are. They are amazing.

Mike asked me again and my response was the same, he said something to me that is very true. He said “You don’t have to be doing something or say anything to enjoy being with your friend. Sometime just being with them is enough, no action or words need to said or done”. Since I had over slept this morning and I hadn’t had my quiet time this morning. And Mike had run into his pastor having his quite time this morning at the coffee shop. We decided that we needed to spend time reading our bible and having our quiet time together. So we did.

As I was reading I read in 1 Corinthians 15: 33-34 it says that bad company corrupts good character. Do not be misled come to your senses as you ought and stop sinning. It reminded me of the person I was before I recommitted my life to God and the change for the better. God has given me good friends like Mike, at times I take them for granted and I need times like this to appreciate them. People like Mike have helped make me a better man, husband, father, and friend to others. If you ask God he will do the same for you, you are worth it. Ask God

Thanks Mike