Good neighbors

Originally appeared on spirituality.com

One of the nicest things anyone ever gave me was a party with all of my friends. 

Our neighbors Nancy and Matt wanted to invite my friends to their house—people they didn’t even know—as a send-off when my company transferred me to Hawaii. What a great time it was. Their house looked beautiful—the food was better than a caterer could provide—the laughter contagious. It was the kind of thing only good friends would do.

But it wasn’t always that way. 

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