Girlfriends & Sisters
 
A mother and her grown daughter sat on a porch overlooking a beautiful mountain lake on a summer day.  The older woman, mother of four, experienced and wise, said, "Get yourself some girlfriends," she advised

"You are going to need girlfriends and that includes your sisters. Go places with them, do things with them."
 
What a funny piece of advice, the daughter thought. Hadn't she just gotten married? Hadn't she just joined the couple-world?  She was a married woman,
for goodness sake, not a young girl who needed girlfriends or relied on her
sister(s).  But she listened to her mom and got back in touch with old girlfriends of years long gone. She made sure to strengthen her bonds with
her sister.
 
As the years tumbled by, one after another, gradually she came to understand
that Mom knew what she was talking about.  Here is what she knows about them:
 
Girlfriends & sisters bring casseroles and scrub your bathroom when you are
sick.
Girlfriends & sisters keep your children and keep your secrets.
Girlfriends & sisters give advice when you ask for it. Sometimes you take
it, sometimes you don't.
Girlfriends & sisters don't always tell you that you're right, but they're
usually honest.
Girlfriends & sisters still love you, even when they don't agree with your
choices.
Girlfriends & sisters might send you a birthday card, but they might not. It
does not matter in the least.
Girlfriends & sisters laugh with you, and you don't need canned jokes to
start the laughter.
Girlfriends & sisters pull you out of jams.
Girlfriends &sisters don't keep a calendar that lets them know who hosted
the other last.
Girlfriends & sisters will give a party for your son or daughter when they
get married or have a baby, in whichever order that comes!
And girlfriends & sisters are there for you, in an instant and truly, when
the hard times come.
Girlfriends & sisters listen when you lose a job or a husband.
Girlfriends & sisters listen when your children break your heart.
Girlfriends & sisters listen when your parent's minds and bodies fail.
My girlfriends bless my life. My sister(s) bless my life.
Once we were young, with no idea of the incredible joys or the incredible
sorrows that lay ahead. Nor did we know how much we would need each other.
 
Pass this on to your sister(s) & girlfriends... even to women you are not
quite friends with. You never know, someday they may end up being a dear old friend.
 

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