When you read this column, spring is on the calendar! Oh, the wonderland of spring. The birds begin to sing their springtime songs. Winter is past and sweet spring has come at last. The trees that once were lifeless will begin to turn green. Many schools throughout the country have had their spring break already and the next holiday to look forward to is Easter holiday. It is a time for special times with family and friends. Among the many Irish sayings, Irish Gerard Butler wrote some beautiful thoughts on family and friends which I would like to share with you.

Family and Friends. The two things we're most grateful for our family and our friends. The care they have provided, the love so strong and true, the thoughtfulness that spoken in words and actions too. Our grandmas and grandpas, our mothers and our dads, our brothers and our sisters are there through good and bad. They're special friends to share with - our smiles, our hopes, our fears. With counting all God's blessings, gifts of love that never end. We can count on friends as family and our family as true friends. Every day is the day to count our blessings that we have with family and friends.

More warm thoughts: Home is the resort of love, of joy, of peace and plenty. Where supporting and supported, polished friends and dearest relatives mingle in bliss. James Thompson. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. Have a beautiful springtime day!

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Dr. Luetta G. Werner

Published in the Marion Record, March 21st, 1996.

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