Friend.  What comes to mind when you hear that word.  Hopefully someone who is near and dear to your heart.  Someone who you can share your most intimate thoughts and concerns.  Someone who you can rely on and call upon at a moment’s notice.  And I hope that one of those people who you call a friend is Jesus.  That is what he wants to be in your life.  A true blue friend.  “What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer”