Sobre a amizade:

Houve alguns momentos na vida em que eu debati-me com algumas dificuldades no que trata à amizade.
Eu sou uma miúda demasiado prática, pragmática e black & white.
As coisas têm de ser funcionais e se algo não funciona, tenho de reparar ou desfazer-me...

E sinceramente, sou mais inclinada a desfazer-me. Porque reparar dá trabalho. Envolve exposição de emoções e sentimentos. Que vai levar à dor. E eu não lido bem com dores. 

Consigo penar para me tatuar. Mas a dor ligada às emoções... 

Mas o que diz a bíblia sobre as amizades?
Qual é a opinião de Deus sobre o assunto?
Como é que eu, que quero que o Reino de Deus venha, devo lidar até com essa dor?

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"and I finally saw what my protective barriers had kept me from seeing and how they had been used as weapons instead of defense

Isn’t this what true, biblical friendship is about: being willing to love, forgive, and bear with those we might not necessarily always understand? And being willing to confess sin, inadvertent or not, and receive the grace that helps us grow?

Biblical friendship is what helps us grow; it sharpens us just as we are used by God to sharpen others.

She said she wished people would invite her to more things and talked about how it seemed like everyone was always getting together without her.

I said I sometimes envied certain relationships and resented that I wasn’t included in them. After confessing our self-focused thoughts to one another, our conversation turned to what true friendship is and what it looks like in reality.

Isn’t it, we said, an ongoing effort? Doesn’t it require commitment and perseverance?

Isn’t it having to deal biblically with our inevitable hurts, being quick to forgive, crossing life-stage boundaries, and refusing to put other women in categories?

Isn’t it pushing through discomfort and refusing to give up on people even when they disappoint us?

And perhaps the most important question:

Isn’t it the greater blessing to be a person who seeks this type of community rather than clinging to false ideals and waiting for it to just “happen” to us?

Instead of holding fast to our ideals, we need to cling to a new definition of friendship, one that allows for awkwardness and risk and fumbling through, because isn’t the road of true friendship paved by these very things?"