I don’t have a lot of friends. I’ve always struggled in the friend-making department. Breaking the ice? Not my forté. I’m great at halting conversation, not at carrying it. Not because I want to willingly kill a conversation, but because I sometimes don’t know what you say that’s genuine. Especially if I’m not feeling the person right at that moment.
Regardless of all that, I can still be a friend. Just because I may not have a long list of people beating down at my door, filling my echoingly empty social calendar with dates and outings and playdates doesn’t mean that I’m completely clueless. I still choose to be a great friend.
I’ve thought a bit about what I’d want a friend to be for me. And that’s part of what I’m trying to follow. No sense in having a list of desirable qualities in a friendship if you’re not planning to ever reciprocate.
Then, there’s the ultimate in friends: Jesus. Have you started to take careful notes as to how Jesus does friendship? He never quits. He never stops loving. He forgives always and forgets all about it. He never holds a grudge. Jesus always offer friendship on the ultimate level to everyone, and that’s without us even proving ourselves.
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Your turn. The thing about “five minute friday”, at least for me, is that the first 4.5 minutes are spent trying to compose something sensible on the fly. Then inspiration hits and I start rolling with it and then–
cut off! Time’s up.
Just spend the next 5 minutes writing freely, openly and without restraint. You’ll be glad you did. Click the button below if you’d like to link up.
