Upheld In Moon River Friendship

 

 

 

 

“My huckleberry friend, Moon River and me.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am sorry to leave Moon River. We’ve been through a lot together, my huckleberry friend and me. We’ve been through the calm, the rapids, the depths and around the bend to find the rainbow together. This is life, isn’t it?

I learned something about huckleberries this week. They are close cousins of blueberries. I’ll bet I’ve been eating them all along and didn’t even know it. If so, I love huckleberries.

Love is what’s common in family and friendship; the way those berries resemble each other. And, in the Great Pacific Northwest, huckleberries are common. They endure year after year, along rivers and paths, no matter how they are picked over. They provide nourishment for man and bear. Oh – and birds, too, I’m sure.

Enduring Friendship

This is God. His friendship for us is enduring, nourishing and always available no matter how it gets worked over. He is faithful and travels the river with us. He isn’t looking for rainbows, either. He is looking for ways to deliver rainbow promises to His beloved.

That would be Us

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” John 15:13.

“No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you” John 15:15.