December Boys

God has blessed me with such an amazing life full of friends and family and love.  It is sad to think I will perhaps never know the full depth of what I have.  My dream is only to give back the same thing to which God has given me.  The true meaning in life cannot really be expressed through words.  Sure, people say that God is the riddle and meaning to life, but they fail to really know or interpret this.  I find the meaning of life through my relationships, from adversity through troubled times, in the realization of what God has given, and most of all through love.  Love is more complicated than any problem life ever encountered.  It is shaped through time.  In order to realize what you have, it must first be taken away from you at which you then realize its full meaning.  Jesus, the perfect gift, was given to the world and He was taken away.  Why is it then we still do not recognize His amazing gift?  It is because we failed to love Him.  He is our Father, Savior, Guide, but for me, He is above all else, a friend.  He stays with you through all times of trouble and despair like a friend who has traveled to the world's end and back again by your side without falter.  You embrace the bond of brotherhood that ties you together like no other event can carry out.  All other friendships become menial and uninteresting.  You sit there, with your friend, by the fire reminiscing about the hard times in utter silence - to break it would be a curse upon your very soul. Not a word spoken, but a whisper in the air signifies the mutual feeling of the scares that left their mark upon your heart.  And no one can understand.  Only the two of them, sitting there completely still sharing the burden laid before you.  Though it is quite you grow deeper in relationship just from each others presence.  This is a true bond a friendship; it is a December Boy friendship.