"A friend is one who strengthens you with prayers, blesses you with love and encourages you with hope."
The definition of friendship has many meanings existing in many situations. Friendship is a complex yet simple thing. It could be defined as an expression of concern for another defining convention or the ability to care for someone without regard of sacrifice or material loss. It is with concern we often find ourselves hopelessly and utterly faced with making decisions paramount in our lives by even the highest standards. When you are friends with someone, you are simply saying I have the capacity to accept you for who and what you are. Friends say, “I accept your faults willingly and knowingly.” You see, friendship…real friendship is built on the foundations of respect, compromise, honesty and acceptance. Face it, we all have flaws and so have some of the past friends we chose or else many of our previous relationships would have lasted longer. Friendship is the joy of being open and honesty without retribution or discomfort.
The broken relationships we have experienced are really a combination of the loss of respect, compromise, honesty and acceptance. "An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." (Proverbs 24: 26) Just think back to every relationship you ever had and at some point and it probably dissolved over the loss of one or more of the aforementioned. I believe that God puts people in our lives for a certain reason and that reason may take some time to reveal itself. It is not my position to question why they exist and not to fight it or refute it.
Every individual existing in our lives help to build the experiences shaping our very being; some are good and some are bad, but they all have purpose. I look at it positively from this perspective…I have had different people in my life to serve different purposes at different times. So to be positive, I simply attribute the loss of a friend caused by some type of misunderstanding as saying the relationship has run its course and served the divined purpose for being there in the first place. Some people are meant to be present in your life to take you mentally, spiritually and emotionally from one point to another. Sometimes the relationship was never meant to be long term, just an influence that your life needed to grow and mature. I appreciate the divinity in this conceptually and I embrace it wholeheartedly.
It took 48 years for me to reach this spiritual peak to understand what eluded me for most of my youth. That truth is, before you can truly love anyone, you must first have a love and acceptance of self. You must first realize you are with fault and it is your desire that those in acquaintance with you have an understanding of your nature as you will with them. We all want to be accepted for whom we are, but more, importantly we have to be willing to accept others. Love and friendship are synonymous in that each reflects co-operative and supportive behavior. Hence, you love your friends and they love you.
The definition of friendship has many meanings existing in many situations. Friendship is a complex yet simple thing. It could be defined as an expression of concern for another defining convention or the ability to care for someone without regard of sacrifice or material loss. It is with concern we often find ourselves hopelessly and utterly faced with making decisions paramount in our lives by even the highest standards. When you are friends with someone, you are simply saying I have the capacity to accept you for who and what you are. Friends say, “I accept your faults willingly and knowingly.” You see, friendship…real friendship is built on the foundations of respect, compromise, honesty and acceptance. Face it, we all have flaws and so have some of the past friends we chose or else many of our previous relationships would have lasted longer. Friendship is the joy of being open and honesty without retribution or discomfort.
The broken relationships we have experienced are really a combination of the loss of respect, compromise, honesty and acceptance. "An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." (Proverbs 24: 26) Just think back to every relationship you ever had and at some point and it probably dissolved over the loss of one or more of the aforementioned. I believe that God puts people in our lives for a certain reason and that reason may take some time to reveal itself. It is not my position to question why they exist and not to fight it or refute it.
Every individual existing in our lives help to build the experiences shaping our very being; some are good and some are bad, but they all have purpose. I look at it positively from this perspective…I have had different people in my life to serve different purposes at different times. So to be positive, I simply attribute the loss of a friend caused by some type of misunderstanding as saying the relationship has run its course and served the divined purpose for being there in the first place. Some people are meant to be present in your life to take you mentally, spiritually and emotionally from one point to another. Sometimes the relationship was never meant to be long term, just an influence that your life needed to grow and mature. I appreciate the divinity in this conceptually and I embrace it wholeheartedly.
It took 48 years for me to reach this spiritual peak to understand what eluded me for most of my youth. That truth is, before you can truly love anyone, you must first have a love and acceptance of self. You must first realize you are with fault and it is your desire that those in acquaintance with you have an understanding of your nature as you will with them. We all want to be accepted for whom we are, but more, importantly we have to be willing to accept others. Love and friendship are synonymous in that each reflects co-operative and supportive behavior. Hence, you love your friends and they love you.