Keeping contacts

Wednesday was a day of travel. The day began at 9.00 a.m. when my wife and I took a bus from Hillview Avenue to National University Hospital. We brought our sandwiches with us, and after seeing the doctor, sat at our usual place a quiet corner at NUH to eat our lunch. Then we made our way by bus and train to Yishun to visit an old friend to celebrate her 79th birthday. She is now housebound, goes about in a wheelchair. What a joy it was to sit, chat, recall old times and pray together.

We thank God we are in reasonable good health. Every Tuesday when we visit Peacehaven we meet so many residents who are wheelchair bound. We've been very blessed and although we do have our aches and pains at times, we can truthfully testify - The Lord has been good to us. He is great, good and gracious.

My wife spends much time going through the list of friends and sending them greetings on their birthdays or for married couples their wedding anniversaries. Some respond, others don't, but never mind, we keep in touch. There are those who do not have e-mail so she makes cards to send them. Of course she signs the cards or messages as from both of us. I must confess she's the one who sends the messages.

We share the same e-mail account as there are no secrets between us. Lotus notes is in my name, so friends write to thank me! I get the credit! Actually she did the work. We have two other accounts aapclim@hotmail.com and aapclim@gmail.com We try not to use Lotus notes for personal correspondents.

E-mail is great. It enables us to keep in touch with our many friends at home and abroad. Good to stay in touch with old friends.

Some thoughts on friends.

"A real friend never gets in your way, unless you are on your way down." Wayne Dyer
"A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd be anywhere else." Len Weine.

The Arabs have this lovely definition of a friend."A true friend is one to whom you can tip out all the contents of your heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away."

Thank you friends. My wife and I appreciate you, especially when you take time to drop us a note even if it is a sentence.