"Me! Me! Me!"

Myself along with a couple of friends are planning a Girlfriend Getaway for about 30 ladies this fall. How did we come up with the title? I tend to call the ladies in my life "girlfriend" as a term of endearment so I suppose that's where it came from. The task is fun, we laugh as much as we plan and I'm so looking forward to the moment we all sequester ourselves away at a campground with food, fun and fellowship.


I have just finished reading Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables". One of my favorite parts was when Jean Valjean discovered Collette and Marius had fallen in love. This man who had done nothing but care for, and love this child now realized he was no longer the most important person in her life. The book says, roughly, that his soul howled, "Me! Me! Me!" and suddenly selfishness was born where only selflessness had been. I tell you this because I had the same experience as Jean Valjean.

Upon arriving at church a couple of Sundays ago, I was told my friend, Carol, was at the hospital with what was apparently a stroke. As soon as this shock sunk in, my soul, as did Jean Valjean's, howled, "Me! Me! Me!" How could my friend possibly be in danger of leaving me! I need her! As it turned out, my friend had a mild TIA due to out of control blood pressure and is now on the mend, thank God! (Take your meds, Carol!)

Anyway, girlfriends (very few men read my blog), I do need you, and I hope you need me also. Yes, I am selfish about my friends, I want you around FOREVER!