Friendship is an ancient virtue, highly valued among believers. The writer of Proverbs said, "A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born of adversity." The desire of everyone is to make each friend a brother or sister, and, while there is little hope of attaining this ideal, the failure to make an attempt is wastefulness and shame. To call someone our brother or sister is to put into words what our Lord desires in action. There is a story about the conversation held one day between the body and the shadow. The shadow was reminding the body how good a friend he was to go wherever the body went in sunshine or moonlight. But the body knew the true makeup of the shadow and reminded him of such when he said, "You are a friend in the sunshine and the moonlight but where are you when they…