You might be my wings

Freinds. Sometimes, we don't really appreciate how much we need them. But perhaps, even more often, we don't come at all close enough to realizing how much we are needed.
Everyone struggles, everyone has doubts, worries, and periods of defeat. In many of these times, we find ourselves with no one to turn to. Remember any times of dispair in your own life? How relieved you were when your freind picked up the phone? How much better did you feel when your tears were heard by caring ears, when they fell on loving shoulders, when the arms that wrapped around you were a freinds? Before Jesus was ressurected, the disciples gathered together, as freinds, as brothers and sisters. They only had each other. And in that, they found stregnth, they found comfort, they found the ability to face the next day.

We are nothing without those to support us. Look at what I am sure is a favorite work of many of us. Look at Frodo. What!? What was Frodo without Sam?! One lapse in judgement in that regard landed him in the web of a giant spider and in the hands of the enemy. Without Aragorn, without Sam, with out Merry and Pippin, without Gandalf, without the elves, Frodo would have never, never, never suceeded. Without friendship, at every crossed path, Middle Earth would have perished. Look at the one man in all of Middle who could have made it alone. Boromir, the Tolkien epitomy of Natty Bumpo, the strongest and most independent man, if anyone could go it alone it was he. He couldn't. Boromir died, and could not even protect his companions. Not alone.



I love Houghton.
By the way, I love all of you too.