One of my many blessings ...
I have surrounded myself trough out my life with godly women, and it has been a great blessing to me. It helped me to grow and mature in different areas. And as I grew older, I was very careful on who was going to be close to me, because I knew the influence a friend can have on a person.
- Be careful to pick your friends well. Pick those you admire in some way. They will have mistakes, but those traits that you admire and want to learn, pay close attention to those!
- Be friends of those you can talk about the Lord freely. That you can be excited to share what you read last night and to hear what she read last night. What the Lord is dealing with you.
- Avoid those women that complain easily, they will drag you down very quickly. They could be very nice people, but complaining ones are very damaging to a friendship.
- If they speak well of their husbands and love their children... stick to them! It is contagious!
- Are they passionate about the Lord or they love to read good doctrine, learn from them.
- Can you laugh with them? or is it all serious all the time? For me, I love to have a good laugh, have a tea, some munchies, paint my nails crazy and just have fun. Yet with the same person, I can pray the next second.
- Some friends will be those that you see very often, some you will see once in a while, but friends that are worth keeping, keep! make an effort to continue their friendship, learn the good, find the good, admire them, keep them in your prayers so that the Lord bless them so that you may continue to be blessed through them.
- Do you disagree doctrinally with some? it is OK!, they will encourage you to seek the Scriptures on hard topics. Do they ask you about your heart? Do they motivate you to learn more?, then, keep them!
- One important thing, LEARN from them. Do not be so quick to be the one who want to "teach" them, but look for the things you need to learn and be humble enough to learn from them.
- Share them ... do not be so possessive over your friends that it becomes a burden to them or to you.
- Over the years, I have had many friends that have influenced my life greatly, I could name each and the things they have taught me.. I have thought of writing a post on it, yet I am afraid it will be so long and that I will miss someone! The list is growing.. and some of those friends have been in my life for so little time, and yet, I still remember the impact in my life. Yet I might write the names with the blessing they have been to me in a note book, so I can add people as I remember them.
What a great book of thanks giving that will be!
So to all my friends and sisters, that have impacted my life and to help me grow and to love me in spite of me, for praying and for being so patient with me all these years, and for my newer friends that I am so blessed to know now (some not in person yet) thank you!
7 comments:
You are all those things to me and many more! I love you dearly...even if you forget how to use spellcheck! lol :) xoxo
Thanks for being my best friend! <3
Heather.. friends are great when love even if they have to guess my reading typos, spellings,... LOL you are a blessing to me <3 I will go back and hit spell check just for you!... lol
Sis... it is a blessingh to have you in my life... I am blessed to have you as my sister and friend. love you.
It is very good advice you have shared here and I will definitely take it to heart!
Except for a couple of Christian friends close by, it is new to me in the past two years to have girlfriends like you describe. To share openly our love for Christ and to discuss scripture and pray for one another is wonderful beyond words!!
I still miss you not being in Ottawa. Such a short time we really had when I think back...maybe some day Ottawa will be home again...Miss you often! Maybe come our way this summer.
Sara... it is in my plans to go to Ottawa as soon as the winter is over.... I will call you so you can put the water to boil for a nice cup of tea :)miss you so much too!!!
Ruth, I am very grateful to know you and count you as a friend.. love you.
Its like you read my mind! You appear to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with some pics to drive the message home a bit, but instead of that, this is fantastic blog. An excellent read. I'll certainly be back.
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