75. Part One: What To Do When A Friendship Is Hard
We talk about friendship a lot here on TBTW, but I don’t know if we’ve ever talked about what to do if a friendship has run its course, if a friendship is unbalanced, or if a historical friendship can sustain currency differences. Part two comes Friday.
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Previously mentioned episode: TBTW 14- An Extrovert’s Guide To Talking to Strangers
Recommended reading: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years’ difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another… the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting—any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,” can truly say to every group of Christian friends, “You have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.” The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
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Song: Old Friends by Ben Rector. Video is adorable:
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