I want you to know that I love my siblings. I want to tell you about Marvin. He has been my best friend many times over. I don't know how old I was, but we went go cart riding because he worked at the one in town, collected money from his paper route customers, and just hang out because we could. One Easter I had to spend the night with Marvin at his home because my parents had to go somewhere. I was so afraid the Easter bunny was not going to come see me and he comforted me and shared the true meaning of Easter with me. That Sunday morning, I woke up and there was the biggest yellow cellophane covered basket I had ever seen. He got me dressed in my nice pretty white dress and we went to church.
As the seasons passed by, I moved south to Florida and he stayed in Virginia. However, when we get together or talk it's as if there has been no time that has separated us. I love this about our relationship.
I took my share of undesirable punches from my brothers too. When I went home to visit at the age of twenty or twenty two, I had on a pair of shorts and sat on the left side of Marvin on the couch as he was watching a football game with my dad. When I sat down, he raised his left hand and slapped my leg with a "how are you doing lil' Sis!" scream. His hand hit the bareness of my leg and it HURT. My leg had welts raise up and the skin turned red as a pepper. We laugh about that now, but Marvin was very apologetic afterwards.
I love all my brothers, but Marvin has left an impression on me. We are not perfect people. We have given our parents reasons to worry over us, pray for us, and spank us too. I have a lot in common with this brother for some reason. I know that God had him in my life at just the right moments and still does. He encourages me, loves me, and even would fight for me if I told him I needed it. I love Marvin and my other brothers too.
Proverbs 18:24 says "A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."
In the book of John is says "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends."
I know I am not always the best friend to everyone. I want to be a TRUE friend. As a friend I cannot accomplish your task for you, but I can love you, pray for you, and walk with you; even carry you if I must. I want to be a TRUE friend that sees you in your sin and though I may not sit with you, I will love you and pray for you too and do my best to encourage you to a better friend too.
I would rather have more friends than anything else in the world. I have a true friend that loves me where I am in life. He cares about me because that is what God calls him to do. He calls me his sister and for that I am thankful.
I belong to a bigger family; God's family. I have many brothers and sisters that I cannot count them. They pray for me, with me, and encourage me. I don't know what I would do without them and I don't want to find out.
~ Be encouraged that if you are an only child, you can have more brothers and sisters than you can count. Let me introduce you to my Father God and His son Jesus Christ.
