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“FRIENDS”

    “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:12-13)

There are friends, and there are acquaintances. In a time when the number of “friends” I have, according to my Facebook account, numbers four figures and a comma (#,###), friends have been falsely defined. We’ve come to believe that the more friends I have, the more important, and/or fulfilling, my life is.

But a friend is much more than someone who sends you a happy face or heart emoji. Here are a few thoughts on who a friend is:

-A friend stays with you even though he may be a thousand miles away.

-A friend weathers the storm with you and doesn’t allow you to be blown away.

-A friend is someone you may not have seen in person for twenty years, and yet when you see him, the conversation is as if there was a pause while one of you went to the restroom.

-A friend is someone who sits across the table from you and tells you the truth…sometimes amazing, but other times honestly brutal.

-A friend is someone who is not a carbon copy of you, someone who has his own opinions that are respected and valued, even when they seem a little warped.

-A friend is someone who is trustworthy; someone who holds the sacredness of the friendship as being profoundly more important than personal gain and prestige.

-A friend oozes with grace and hope, in contradiction to the culture’s rush to judgment and casting the wounded into darkness.

-A friend is someone you can share tears of pain with, but also tears that are brought on by the overflow of laughter.

In other words, a blessed person is someone who has a boatload of acquaintances, but a short list of true friends who could be called upon to be in the same life raft. 

A life raft! Huh! That might be the best metaphor. But you know that every one of those life raft friends, if it came to it, would give up their seat for you. That’s what a friend does. 

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