A Friend in need is friend indeed.
While pensive friends painful vigils keep;
Without support themselves, they support friends indeed,
Good friends and good friendship must ever join;
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
Ram’s marriage was nearing end. He had left his wife, two
children. Sam heard
what Ram had done. Although he lived six
hundred miles away, he availed a week-end to drive down to
see him.
Sam knew what Ram needed was not judgment but an
encouragement.
Sam shared his concern, love and support. They moved together at
all the local known places visiting them sightseeing and
enjoying
each other’s company, for full two days and parted.
What Ram had lacked was support from a friend who would look
eye to eye
and offer a strong shoulder of support. That support may come
in different ways. Some times it may come through love and
caring;
other times through confrontation and accountability.
Ram’s life changed when both were willing to reach beyond
themselves and their concerns and get involved in pursuit of
nothing. Sam lend him his shoulder of support to make him
realize that he was not alone in this world.
Man-to Man encouragement has a different kind of power than
man-to-woman. He
could relate to the struggles of another friend.
At a critical moment in his life Ram needed Sam more than
his wife
as a support.
Without Sam’s saying anything what he should do and all
that,
Sam heard that Ram had been united with his family and they
were OK.
Blessed are those who have good friends.
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