and when that relationship forms, everything changes
The kind of friend I'm talking about
challenges, but also encourages,
knowing that life isn't a competition against one another,
but rather against ourselves to become better.
The kind of friend that critiques, but only because love is the foundation,
a mutual understanding that no matter if disagreement occurs,
the sharpening is for good, not for easy.
The kind of friend who accepts you, wrinkles, burps, bumps, and all.
A soul to soul connection that is designed to reflect the beauty of heaven, the love of a creator for his created.
The kind of friend who doesn't envy, won't tear down, never manipulates, wants good and truth and hope and joy.
It's painted vividly in 1 Corinthians 13, and because God is love, we can know God is all of these things....
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes,what is in part disappears.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
May these words from God set us all free today!
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