Friendship is truly a gift.
I believe every friendship has a story.
What makes one person choose another as a friend and that person choose
them back? It’s a mystery, but I believe
friendship is nothing more than sheer grace.
I was reminded this night of a friendship I started in
middle school. It was a big transition
from elementary school to junior high and I felt it. I needed a friend, and God gave me Jill. She was new to the area and would wear skirts
everyday to school and that was strange. This got me interested in her right away. She seemed different, and being the only
Latina girl in a predominately white environment, I always felt a little “in a
class of my own.” So, I was attracted to her, and somehow we connected in the Library
over books and the Dewey decimal system- and Voila! A friendship was born…
I can think of another friendship that occurred when I was
much older and in need of a friend. We
just clicked- the same age, love for God, love for clothes…It was a match made
in heaven!
So special friendships are, but they may not always last
forever, and for different reasons friendships can drift apart and that’s
ok. They may have served a time when you
really needed each other.
The Good News is that God can always build new
friendships. They can come when we least
expect it, but always when we most need it.
Make room, and trust that God will bring you a friend. It will be a new story, but no different than
two people that find each other at the right time and see something in each
other that makes them want to draw near.
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