Hey everyone!
I really enjoyed the last post because it addressed head on an issue that, as I admitted in said post, I have been struggling with for some time until then.
This being my eleventh post in my lifestyle category, I wanted to make sure that I continue to represent my faith in as pure and non-judgemental attitude as possible. I am, after all, representing Kingdom purpose as a believer on Christ.
Today, I wanted to take a quick look at the value of friendship and how we are to appreciate those who are in our lives rather than taking them for granted...
Friendship - A Desired Thing
As always, let me start by grabbing a definition of friendship: -
Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association.
Like last time, I grabbed this from Wikipedia because it pretty much captures the emotion that I am trying to express. It shows me, right here, that this was the reason that I left my last church; I was making an awful lot of "acquaintances" but not a lot of friends. I don't mean this disrespectfully, I mean it in the sense that I was not making friends with people that I felt resonated with me to be carried across into my life outside of church.
It is at a time like this where I realise, before the time I found out that the girl I'd been so relentlessly crushing upon was already taken, that I had been starting to feel out of place and as though I just didn't belong there. I don't blame anyone for that, I was just beginning to experience life more and more from being a square peg fitting snugly into a square hole to instead a square peg trying to fit into a round hole that just... wouldn't... go!
What I didn't know was that 2017 was just the beginning of the end for my time at Audacious. That's all. Nothing offensive. Nothing else. It just became clear in August that it was fast becoming time for me to move on and seek new ground elsewhere to conquer in Jesus' Name.
Reading scripture there are countless stories of how Jesus welcomed people into His presence from all walks of life and that's what got me thinking to the true nature of friendships that I'd made there.
Sure, my name could have been dropped and a lot of people would have known who you were talking about. Out of those names, however, there were actually few I truly felt I belonged with causing me to consider making a new church my home. Again, I bear them no ill will as sometimes, it's just the end of the road for you in one place. That's not an insult; it's just a fact of life.
But if you said that what I'd been through last year (of course a large part of which is not documented on here so you're going to have to take my word for it!) was an indication that it was time to move onto pastures new, I wouldn't have blamed you for pointing that out.
For me to be fixed into a positions where I still have feelings for her today, then it's time to seek God all the more and take myself out of the equation for good with no distractions!
Final Thought
Friendship can be a funny thing, the more you seek of it the less you may find of it sometimes. I'm just recently coming to grips with the fact that a couple of my friends I thought I'd been standing with are now giving me the distinct impression of a rather cold shoulder. This is, naturally, causing me to see that I want not the same as what they are able, or willing, to offer. Again, that's not an insult; it's just a fact of life sometimes.
Just remember, honour the people that are in your life and that want to be in your life before it's too late and the sand falls through the hourglass of Time one last time... you just might never know how long you have them in your life!
Peace... and duct-tape!
===TLP===
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