How do you know you have a real friend???

I have been thinking a lot about friendship lately and the following thought struck me...

"Friendship is like the relationship between the hand and the eyes. Its like when the hand gets hurt the eye cries and when the eye cries the hand wipes away the tears."
I find that picture to be a perfect one of what friendship is, and not only that but how the body of Christ (the Church his Bride) works together.

It is amazing. The eyes don't wonder if they should cry or not when the hand gets hurt and the hand never argues about why it should or shouldn't wipe the eyes' tears away.

We are all running the race of life, right? If your feet were to trip and you fell down your hands would automatically go out in front of you to protect your face and body from hitting the ground as hard and getting hurt far worse than it would without that protection. On your way down your hands don't argue with the brain saying that the feet tripped so it is their fault; the feet should be putting themselves out there for the the impact and the scrapes. The hands don't stay in a willful stubbornness against the body and say that they aren't going to put themselves out there to get the scratches when they know good and well that they are fully capable of saving the body from worse pain than a few scrapes and bruises they will receive from their act of serving the whole. They stretch themselves out without even a passing thought for themselves.

That is how Christ is with us... Wow! we are blessed.

Anyway, I found that to be a great picture to share. I hope this stirs up thought.