Wherever one person takes another into the care of their heart, they have the power to bless.

A Friendship Blessing May you be blessed with good friends. May you learn to be a good friend to yourself. May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness. May this change you. May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you. May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging. May you treasure your friends. May you be good to them and may you be there for them; may they bring you all the blessings, challenges, truth, and light that you need for your journey. May you never be isolated. May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam ċara.

We commonly praise the good hearts of those who admire us.

But your greatest blessing was of another order. In gaining my friendship through your charity — I have never encountered its equal — you have furnished me with a source of inspiration more powerful and more pure that one could find among human things. For nothing among human things is as powerful for maintaining our gaze, applied ever more intensely on God, than friendship with the friends of God.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Helping those less fortunate than us is a blessed opportunity to show thanks for the gifts of life that we ourselves enjoy.

It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

God gave us our relatives: thank god we can choose our friends.

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

We love that is why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.

Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me.