A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. –Proverbs 18:24 For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend. We used to take sweet counsel together; within God’s house we walked in the throng. –Psalm 55:12–14 No matter who we are, what we do, or