A Message from Bill Murray

Friends For Life

There is a song from the Broadway play WICKED that captures the relationship of people with an astounding truthfulness. It shows how people come into our lives and leave their imprint on our souls, making us better people for having known them. This could not be any truer for the experiences of the folks here at Friends For Life. The exchange of love, caring, and compassion by the members and the staff has made our lives richer and fuller, leaving us better people in the end.

- Bill Murray (Outreach Director and President, FFL Board of Trustees)

FOR GOOD

I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you
Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend:
Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
Because I knew you:
I have been changed for good

And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done you blame me for
But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share
And none of it seems to matter anymore.

Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
I do believe I have been changed for the better?
And because I knew you:
Because I knew you:
Because I knew you:
I have been changed for good.

- from the Broadway musical Wicked