I've been spending a lot of time this past week reading from Ecclesiastes, and this passage caught my attention. It is about the value of a friend which I have come to believe is essential to the practice of sabbath.
Ecclesiastes 4: 9-16
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
For it they fall, one will lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls
and does not have another to help.
Again, if two lie together, they keep warm;
but how can one keep warm alone?
And though one might prevail against another, two will withstand one.
A three-fold cord is not quickly broken.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king,
who will no longer take advice.
One can indeed come out of prison to reign, even though born poor in the kingdom.
I saw all the living who, moving about under the sun, follow that youth who replaced the king;
there was no end to all those people whom he led.
Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him.
Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
I'll add my reflection later this week after I've had some more sleep!
Warm Fuzzies,
Karen
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