“Best friends.”

They say that: “Diamonds are girls best friends.” I say, “some girls are best friends.”

My girl “the love of my life” the mother of my children, my laughing partner, “my alter ego”, said to me shortly before she died: “ I do not like the part of our wedding vows when we said to each other, “until death do us part.”

I never thought about the matter, so I asked her, “Do you mean to say that after over 40 years you would still want to hang out with me for eternity?” Ruthie without loosing a heartbeat said, “Yes and with no other. ”If that is not the words of a girl to her “Best Friend” then I die without knowing the meaning of “what a Best Friend is.”

Though the conversation took me by surprise, my mental transactions found a path of less resistance like water that runs its natural course and I answered her with the only answer that a best friend should answer: ”In heaven you will be so beautiful with a perfect and glorified body and when men arrive there in their perfect and glorified bodies, I do not want to miss you among so many glorious girls, would you please wear your name tag.” She gladly accepted and we both smile knowing something about “best friends.”

In true friendship one is the property of the other.
In true friendship one learns to love another as self.
In true friendship one invests heart and all as in a priceless treasure.
“WHERE YOUR TREASURES ARE, THERE YOUR HEART WILL ALSO BE.”

This is as a good time as any to confess that I am looking forward to heaven because next to Jesus, Ruthie will be waiting for me there to be separated no more. Jesus is the hidden treasure of God given to Ruthie and me and she is the crown jewel of Jesus.

I cannot help it but to think of me as a Tycoon and a shareholder in the Real State of Heaven. Sometimes I behave myself as a rich man even on earth, now you know why.

The point of our meditation is as a gentle reminder to us all not to go after diamonds as best friends, because if you do so you will end up with only “Diamonds as best friends.”

Diamonds are lifeless.
Diamonds are not warm.
Diamonds do not shine.
Diamonds only reflect light when light is around.
Diamonds have a tale to tell and that is a love story of the giver.
Diamonds without love story are just stones over the black velvet background without a tale to tell.
Try to see if diamonds shine when alone and in darkness.

It is never too late to repent while still breathing. Set your hearts in the things above where your treasures are, because “where your treasures are, there your heart will also be.” I rather be a “glow worm” that shines at night from within than a Diamond without any light from within.

Your friend.

Gerry Gutierrez.