Do you experience the blessing of true friendships? Are there friends who stand beside you through crisis experiences? If so, you’re blessed indeed.

The value of friendship cannot be measured. Faithful friends are there if we falter or fall; with compassion, they offer support and encouragement.

Ruth became friend, family and provider for her mother-in-law, Naomi.

Together, they faced death, relocation, and poverty.

“But Ruth replied:

Do not persuade me to leave you
or go back and not follow you.
For wherever you go, I will go,
and wherever you live, I will live;
your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.
Where you die, I will die,
and there I will be buried.
May Yahweh punish me,
and do so severely,
if anything but death separates you and me (Ruth 1:16-17 HCSB).”

Together, friends face adversity and challenges.