Friends!

What are friends? If we look at the word friends we see "i" "end", but you also see "fried" in this word as well as "is". So can we say that friends are our means to the end? I think so, but also to the beginning. You see there is no ending without a beginning. All things that end begin again new.

Some people spend their whole lifetime with friends that they grew up with. Then there are those, like myself, that have many, many friends over their entire lifetime. One particular friend who I love and adore printed off an email to me after one of our blow ups regarding rent and utilities; we were in business together. This email touched my heart deeply and allowed me to see what a "real" friend was.

There are those that pretend to be your friend but this is usually so "they" gain something out of the relationship. In some way you are "needed" in order to make them feel good, look good or know more than they do. When they feel threatened that someone is on to their little game they usually will do what they can to destroy you, all along they are forgetting that you are them and their own demise is at hand.

There are those that really want to be your friend but don't know how to relate to themselves so how in the world will they be able to relate to you. These are the friends searching, needing guidance, and are extremely loyal. There is a part of them that knows they are learning about themselves through you.

Then there are those friends that want a friend or to be friends so they can smile with their ego smile about how much they know and you don't. These friends look forward to dining with you so they can show you how smart they are, or how much they still have over you, or better yet, want to dine with you to prove to you how much better they are than you because "YOU" still have issues with them. LOL...this is probably my best friend relationship of them all.

You see, what we try to show another is really what we are here to learn ourselves. No matter the situation or circumstance it is true all the way around. This is hard for folks, especially when they feel they have overcome so many of these situations or circumstances themselves. But are we ever really over it? I think not, not until your world doesn't reflect those kinds of people any longer.

I have a friend that I love to listen to because I instantly am able to see how "I've" done what she is talking about. I bless the information! What in the world do you think happens next?

It's simply amazing that when we get something how this frees up our energy, it frees our minds to think quickly and to reason without judgment, and to have the energy we desire and need to experience a full life. I welcome the information because then I know that when I "accept" it I free up blocked energy. Bottom line that's all our friends are here to do, free up blocked energy.

Whether it's through having a shoulder to cry on, laughing at a funny joke, or fighting for that last donut it's all about energy.

We know when we are done with friends as well, how? We feel good about the relationship we had with them, we welcome them to their own experience, and we appreciate the role they have played in our lives. If you are still harboring resentment, anger, jealousy, or even fear you still have blocked energy in which this FRIEND was your greatest gift of freedom.

For a person that says, "I'm ready to become enlightened" they set the stage up for many difficult task in front of them to allow them to clear these blocks that have brought darkness to them instead of light. It is not the friends fault that you are the way you are, but your own with the task you have given yourself in this life. The stronger the friend the more power that is held within the self realization of that particular relationship. The more you hate someone that is where you are hiding power.

There is nothing else but love and light. When you decided to wake up you'll see that all the good in you you put into someone else as your opposite.

There is a commercial on TV right now where this little boy is dressed up as Batman and there is a whole pumpkin full of candy with a sign that says, "Please take only one piece of candy." He takes his one piece but he's thinking about taking more. Just as he's getting ready to take more a little girl comes up and snatches a whole hand full. The boy says, "The signs says only one piece." The little girl looks up at him with this smart butt look and says, "I can't read". LOL I love it!!! I love it because how many of ourselves want more but don't allow ourselves to reach out and just grab.

That's what friends are! They are your little treats just waiting for you to grab. Gobble it all up and feel freedom from having the opportunity to stretch the imagination.

As I watch that commercial and can't help but to think of a male friend that was always about the rules. He would get extremely angry and upset when I didn't follow the rules. He wanted guidelines, he wanted structure.....all along it was within him to have these things just by his own ability to let go. You SEE? We have to let go of what we think we see to know and discover what is real and what we can't see in that moment. But it will come, it always does.

How can a person teach freedom from this reality when they are thinking only of laws and rules? It's more about common sense and guidance. All things are created for our good. There is only one law, love!

Enjoy loving someone today. Make a new friend or call up an old one and say I love you. I have a dear, dear friend in Boston now that we do that to each other at random moments. This is when you know that your energy is saying hello my dear friend we are free to experience life today, now go out and create it!

I love you all!!!!

Love, Dr. Velvete