There are many different levels of friendships, some people are friends because they work together or sit in the same pew very Sunday mornings. Others are friends because they grew up together and played on the same basketball team. Still others are friends because they are connected on a much deeper level.
People who are connected on this deeper level are connected spiritually through love. They don’t only want their friends to win a basketball game, they want the best for them in life. These friends climb to the summit of the mountains to rejoice and celebrate the joys of life. They also walk through the valleys of pain and suffering mourning and crying together.
C.S. Lewis talks about this type of love, it goes beyond the typical love that only looks for the good in relationships. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.”
When you think about your friendships and how many of them are you welling to let wrung or possibly broke your heart? If you don’t have any friendships that you are welling to risk, do you really have any friendships?
What do you think?
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you have to love cs lewis. it is one of the most true quotes i've heard. you of any know how to be a true friend.
Yep, all most love cs lewis, thanks for nice words. I hope I am living out what it means to be a true friend. I have found that friendships outside of school are a lot harder than most. But with God's grace I am trying to be a good friend to all.
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