Several times this past weekend, I found my three and a half-year-old granddaughter, Palmer, lying on the floor under the Christmas tree looking at the lights and ornaments and beautifully wrapped gifts. "Papa", she started while pointing to a present, "can I open this one?" It took every ounce of discipline in me to tell her that she would have to wait until Christmas morning. "Okay", she said in a somewhat dejected voice.
Read MoreI recently came across a study by Evite that discovered the average American has not made a new friend in the past five years. That seems impossible to believe! But then I looked in the mirror and I thought about the past five years in my life. If you take away the people that I meet through work and if I ignore the acquaintances that I make at church, in my neighborhood and in my office building, I've made a lot fewer new and true friends in the past five years than I'd like to admit.
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