Four friends walking with a FRIEND!!!

There are four of us who who live not so far from each other and just this year we developed the closeness and camaraderie because of our passion to do early morning walks. Our ages range from late- forties to mid-sixties and we come from different family backgrounds and work experiences. There's a government lawyer and fiscal, a businessman and farmer, a retired sugar milling employee and OFW, and a pastor. We usually wake up at four-thirty dawn, start walking, seeing and joining each other in about fifteen to thirty minutes later. Naturally, this kind of activity led us to become friends. The dictionary defines a friend as one attached to another by esteem, respect, and affection. This brings to mind an account in the second chapter of the gospel of Mark of some people bringing to Jesus a paralytic, carried by four men. Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. And Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, 'son, your sins are forgiven.' ..."But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins---...I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home." And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God.

This is my heart's desire and prayer for the four of us that our camaraderie and friendship would bloom and enable each one of us to be like those people who brought the paralytic to Christ who were men of God, men of faith, risk takers, real friends to those in need of healing and wholeness not only of the body but most especially of the spirit and soul as well. By the way our names are Douglas, Alexander, Primo, Andrew (Acronym: DAPA which means to lie prostrate in surrender) which reminds me of the lines of a song which goes: "O come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the LORD our God and maker..."

You are welcome to join and walk with us anytime but most especially to know and walk with HIM our best Friend!