Friendship

"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: 'What, you too? I though I was the only one.'"

I'm sure each and every one of us can look back on our lives in terms of the friends we spend are time with and quite easily say that they have come and gone in stages. It is very rare that a friend that you were close with when you were in elementary school remains close to you when you become an adult. It takes a special friend and circumstances for this to happen. This is rare because as we get older, things that happen both in and out of are control change the priorities and values in our lives. A friend that you might have had while playing competitive soccer when you were younger could no longer in your life simply because one of you chose to stop playing that given sport.

I want to bring this up because as we become husbands and wives, parents and grandparents, we will be pressed more and more to even find the time to spend with friends. But, according to God's Word, we need to have friends. We need this. So, the point I want to make is that where we choose to put ourselves and what we value will continually dictate who our friends will be. When we were younger, it wasn't so critical, because whether we choose to play soccer, basketball, pursue music, or surf, we can meet quality people through our parents. But as we become older, we need to make critical choices of where we put ourselves in our free time, because these are the places where we will meet our friends. I encourage all of us to surround ourselves with positive people and environments, because like it or not, we eventually become what is around us.