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Have you ever been around close friends that just seem to always bring out the best in you?

Friends with whom you felt total freedom to be yourself.

Friends who overlook your failures and tolerate your successes.

Well Thomas Aquinas once wrote, that there is nothing on this earth more to be prized

than true friendship.

But that was before Facebook came along and allowed us to friend everything.

I truly hope the theme of this guided audio meditation from John chapter 15 will remind

you of the gift God offers in having true friends and how he offers a guide to discovering

true friendship when you consider his son Jesus.

So to begin your meditation, to start to settle into wherever you are, feel your body relax

into wherever you're sitting, your eyes closing through a soft gaze as you feel natural

entities like being in the presence of close friends.

As you become more at ease, listen and join in this responsive prayer from Psalm chapter

9.

To respond softly with Jesus, you are a friend to sinners.

I will give thanks to you Lord with all of my heart.

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