Thanksgiving Gift to ALL My Friends!!!! - 11/25/99 04:56 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends here. Today, although many of us are not reunited as a family, let us look to whatever joys and blessings are there - children, parents, other family and dearest friends! <P>I share this poem with you as testament to how much each person here means to me and has enriched my life in some measure through all this pain that I am enduring:<P>"The Friend Who Just Stands By"<P>"When trouble comes your soul to try,<BR>You love the friend who just 'stands by.'<BR>Perhaps there's nothing he can do -<BR>The thing is strictly up to you;<BR>For there are troubles all your own,<BR>And paths the soul must tread alone;<BR>Times when love cannot smooth the road<BR>Nor friendship lift the heavy load,<BR>But just to know you have a friend<BR>Who will 'stand by' until the end,<BR>Whose sympathy through all endures,<BR>Whose warm handclasp is always yours -<BR>It helps, some ways, to pull you through,<BR>Although there's nothing he can do.<BR>And so with frevent heart you cry,<BR>'God bless the friend who just "stands by."'"<P>B. Y. Williams<P>Happy Thanksgiving one and all! <P>Roll Me Away<P>------------------<BR>"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things in which smiles and kindnesses and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort."<P>Sir Humphry Day<p>[This message has been edited by Roll Me Away (edited November 25, 1999).]