Just so everyone knows, my best friends are THE BEST! I mean, they live with me, and tolerate me, they have to be, right?
My friend Jen and I do a bible study every Wednesday night together without fail, unless she goes on vacation with her family or the apocalypse comes. We studied Galatians and now we are working on a study on apologetics, which is really cool and totally makes more sense than these scientific weirdos claim it does. (Pffft... evolution... I tell you if evolution happened it began with God...)
So anyway, today, in seven minutes to be exact, I have an exam which I think will be really hard. I don't think I will do well. I haven't payed as much attention in class as I should have, and I think that studying is probably a lost cause now. Jen decided that, since we have both been stressed out we will go somewhere she has planned (it's a surprise) and she says we will love it ( I trust her on this) and just hang out and not study for today. Yay! I am so excited!
The thing is, these friends, like Jen, who I have within fellowship are soooo much more awesome than any friends I had on the outside. (haha! I make Christianity sound like a prison... I mean, it is if prison were filled with awesome people who love you and the walls were made of grace and love and satisfaction....LOL) I have known these girls I live with for only oh.... nine months. I have only lived with them for four. They are my best friends. They do more for me than worldly people ever seemed to be able to. My 21st birthday the girls baked me a cake and took me out bar-hopping. I had known them then for barely two months. My worldly friends were only good enough (some of them) to send me a Happy Birthday post on Facebook... These girls totally opened their hearts to me and welcomed me in.
God gives believers the best relationships. My relationships are fulfilling. They are loving. They exceed description in depth and relevance. Before I got involved in this home church, I didn't know what a good relationship was. I didn't even know really how to make friends. I always tended to make one close friend and hang with them. But that one friend often flakes out and then you are left alone. Luckily, that one friend was my boyfriend of 2 1/2 years, David, and has been since I met him. These relationships I have with these girls effects eternity. In heaven, we will still be friends and work on things together, and praise God together.
Damn... I am so lucky to have this kind of fulfilling relationship!
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im horrible at makeing friends and only have one but thats because groups of people annoy me lol, i just dont feel comfortable around more than five people and i especially hate everyone on me, but also me and my one friend are extremely jealous, i start to hang out with someone else and he gets pissed and starts takeing all my time and vise versa, a guy we work with says its like seeing a couple fight, but he allowed to have a girl friend, actually his girl friend is like a sister to me and i hope i find a woman that he equally approves of, if not than it wont be much fun since we are around each other all the time
@edumas - I am really terrible at making friends too. The only reason these friend relationships are significant in my life is because we all have God in our lives. The love God gives us for each other is incredible. I am not a patient or really even a kind person, but I find myself unable to be rude or unloving or impatient with them.