While Marilyn Monroe might not be complete role model material in all aspects of her life, I really love the last part of this quote.It is so easy sometimes to have the friends that you only hang out with on the good days- every memory with them is sunshine, laughter, and random adventures. You know that if you called some of them crying, they would have some excuse to run, because they can't handle when your life is a mess. And then sometimes you have those friends that you know 24/7, no matter how many hours, days, months, or years have gone by since you last spoke, that if you pick up the phone they will be on their way to your house. Maybe just with a shoulder to cry on... your favorite food... or some errand to get you out of the house. They will toss tortillas off the suspension bridge with you late at night because your ex is getting married, come watch movies all afternoon because you are too sad to talk but just need them there, or answer their phone when they are dead asleep and have to be at work in 3 hours. These friends deal with you at your worst, no matter what, because they love you. How many times in life do we give all the best of us to people who don't care, but only give the worst to the ones we love? Maybe its those friends who deal with the messy who truly deserve to celebrate all the good times with us.
And its even true with God. How many times do we run to him on the worst of days, ready to dump all our problems on Him, and demand answers when things don't go our way, and yet on the best of days, we keep on going. But God can handle us at our worst. He is ready, waiting to carry us and draw us into His loving embrace. So how much more does He deserve our praise on the best of days?
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