2 September 2017 @12:03
My very very close friends and I believe that if we value relationships above all, everything else follows. We don't believe on dispossable relationship or friendship, we only believe that if that relationship will not bring glory to the One who make us then and only then we will decide to let go of each other. We've been on our up's and down's of our friendship. We discover ourselves as we discover each other. We love to have wings, but we also need roots. Our friendship can deliver both wings and roots. It is in satisfying friendships that we find wholeness and, on the backstroke, happiness.
Our friendship starts with story and ends with story. It is who we are. When we tell our stories in an authentic and vulnerable way, they become journals with markers to which others can connect. From our shared stories come affirmations and covenants and dreams. Perhaps best of all, our stories are the one place in our lives that we do not have to compete and we always get an A! Yes we are not perfect. We fail most of the time, actually many, many times. But God is faithful He will never allow us to be on that position instead He will pick us up and tap our shoulder and remind us that hey daughter turn to me now. Let us walk together with your head held up high. Then we will get a passing grade and an A perhaps! Praise God
Each of us has the need not just to connect but the need to engage. In Ecclesiastes, two or three walk together, it’s the best. Above all, friendship does not depend on sameness. It is way more than hanging out with someone of common origin or religion or personality. Friendship~true, and deep friendship is based on commitment, a geniune commitment on that mutual choice to walk with that person through whatever comes their way.
A lasting and authentic friend is someone who knows us, supports us, and perhaps especially challenges us. A lasting and aunthentic friend, at the end of the day, is quite simply there.
We live in the Digital Age, where what we know has been proffered as the thing that gives us life, makes us interesting, and gets us ahead. Some of that may be true. But in the process of gaining knowledge, we might lose wisdom. The thing that takes us wide cannot take us deep. In the end, who I know outweighs what I know a hundred times.
We do not need and are not able to walk with dozens of people closely. We believe that if we think deep about God our life will have meaning and wholeness and joy. A joy centered in a profound kind of knowing. To know and be known is at the core of our deepest friendships. God not only desires friendship for us, he desires friendship with us.
