Tonight we give thanks for the great gift of friendship and in particular for my great friend . . . thank you for the circumstances that brought us together and have bound us together into the sacred bundle of life. Thank you also for the gift of our friendship: for knowledge that comforts, for words that encourage, for insight that blesses, for all the experience shared, for the sweet bliss of knowing each other deeply in so many ways; for history and a hope of the future, for conversation and laughter, for silence, for bearing each other's witness truly, for holding each other safe in our hearts with great love and tenderness.
— Daphne Rose Kingma Kurtz in The Grateful Table by Brenda Knight