Who are your friends?
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:12-13 Listen, loved ones, and let me tell you about my friend, Randy. He and I were about as opposite as two friends could be. I worked in technology and he built buildings out of brick. I loved to run and he loved to hunt. While the towers fell in 2001, I sat dumbstruck with the rest of the country wondering what would happen next. Randy would learn of it two weeks later because he was up in the Canadian tundra, near the Arctic Circle without cell service, hunting musk ox, and avoiding grizzly bears. Yet, when he and I would sing together, I felt I could sing better because it was us singing. He included me. He encouraged me to play guitar, sing, and lead. For several years, leading our church’s worship team together, we were a team. He would lead the congregation and I would lead the band. It worked well, we both