A Letter to a Friend .... to You (Our Sunday Talks)

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Podcast Excerpt: Do you have a friend who has been a great help and comfort to you? I have such a friend. Tonight I am in the mood to think of that friend and write them a letter like this....

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0:00.0	Welcome to Our Sunday Talks, an exclusive series for the patrons of the inspirational
0:18.3	living podcast.
0:20.8	The objective of today's talk is to remind you that if you have an important person
0:26.6	in your life, be it a friend, family member, or spouse, don't wait to tell them how important
0:33.8	they are to you.
0:35.9	This talk was edited and adapted from Evening Roundup by William
0:41.7	Crosby Hunter, published in 1915. Do you have a friend who has been a great help and comfort to you?
0:55.6	I have such a friend.
0:58.4	Tonight I am in the mood to think of that friend and write them a letter like this.
1:05.4	This is to you.
1:07.7	It is for you.
1:09.5	It is about you. You I have in mind and the good influence you have
1:16.2	on me. It is a happiness and satisfaction to know you and bask in the atmosphere of you.
1:25.6	The world is better because of you. You have helped to raise the average.
1:33.0	You and your goodness, you do not appreciate what that means. You are so modest, so loathed to
1:42.6	think of yourself, so unselfish in this respect, that I must tell
1:48.8	you of you and about you.
1:52.6	You have a warm heart that throbs for others' woes, and holds sympathy.
1:59.2	The great world is cold, selfish and cares little for others.
2:03.6	But you are different. You are a great pillow of rest, on which I and others who love you
2:12.6	may lay our tired, weary heads, while you wrap your arms of friendship and goodness about us,
2:21.3	and feel our very heartbeats.
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