Losing Friendships
Losing friendships is not a good thing. It's hard enough in this world as transient and busy as life is to build good relationships. I am afraid that I am in the process of losing someone that I considered a friend. I hope that something can change and it not happen, but I fear for this particular person that they are in the process of a self-destruct.
Isn't is a helpless feeling knowing that you love someone and there's nothing you can do. I mean, you do all you can and then some. You take care to not be hurtful, and then seemingly out of the blue they are going, going, and sometimes gone.
The proverbs say, (Proverbs 18:24 NCV) "Some friends may ruin you, but a real friend will be more loyal than a brother." I wish all relationships that we love could continue, but I guess it's just not meant to be.
That's another reason to add to the great list of reasons to follow Jesus. Even though our relationships are scarred and battered, Jesus never moves. He is always with us. As He Himself once said, "I will be with you always...."
Isn't is a helpless feeling knowing that you love someone and there's nothing you can do. I mean, you do all you can and then some. You take care to not be hurtful, and then seemingly out of the blue they are going, going, and sometimes gone.
The proverbs say, (Proverbs 18:24 NCV) "Some friends may ruin you, but a real friend will be more loyal than a brother." I wish all relationships that we love could continue, but I guess it's just not meant to be.
That's another reason to add to the great list of reasons to follow Jesus. Even though our relationships are scarred and battered, Jesus never moves. He is always with us. As He Himself once said, "I will be with you always...."
posted by Keith Davis at
12:29 AM
4 Comments:
Preachers and friendships? That is a tough one.
I recently told my son, "If you're a good person and reasonably 'well adjusted'- in your entire life you will be able to count the number of FRIENDS you have on one hand. But the number of people who count you as a friend will be numerous". I told him the sooner he figured out that not everyone who considered him to be their friend was going to be his friend in return- the easier life would be.
I have three people who are what most call GOOD FRIENDS and I probably have 50 who have me as their "good friend". I personally have never understood FRIENDS who weren't "good" or "close" but most people tend to have dozens of those kinds of friends in their lives at any given moment.
AW
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Anonymous, at 11:34 PM
For a while in my life I had never experience the loss of a friend except through the usual "moving away" reason. The first "friend" I lost was someone who was also close to my mother and this "friend" not only turned on me but my mother as well.
Like Greg, I experienced a time were I was on my guard as far as letting people close.
We'll pray for resolution in your situation my brother. Hang in there. Remember, you always have friends in our (as Dee puts it) "Blog Church."
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cwinwc, at 7:45 AM
Hey Keith,
I am thinking you are the North Alabama Keith Davis? I am not sure if you remember me but I was part of the Danny Jones youth group at Highland Park. Anyway, glad to find your blog. I will check it periodically. God bless and good to see you are around. Take care
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Matt, at 7:33 AM
I'm like Don ... there are few folks I can honestly call a "friend."
Leadership had an article a couple years ago called "Everyone's Pastor But Nobody's Friend." It was such a timely piece, and true.
Real relationships take time and intimacy and that is two things that "pastors" are often short on.
Shoot there are only a few folks who will own up to "knowing" me!! :-)
Wade, Don, Glen Meade and who else ...
Shalom,
Bobby Valentine
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Stoned-Campbell Disciple, at 1:53 PM
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