Mi Trabajo

Friendship is a relationship with broad ambiguous and even shifting boundaries. The terms friend and friendship mean different things to different people and different things to the same people at different times. It involves as little or as much intimacy as the partners are inclined to express at any given times.

Friends are not normally obligated to change benefits, but do so in ways that are often so natural as to be unwitting. The ties that bind them are by unfettered mutual consent. A friendship contributes a unique ways to personal development and well being.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies…and yet they leave their friendship and intimacies with no cultivation to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to “keep by force of mere inertia.

Friendship is a blessing, and a friend is the channel through whom great emotional, spiritual, and sometimes even physical blessings flow. Friends will cheer us when we’re sorrowful or depressed. Friends will challenge us to attain our original limits with encouragement when we allow ourselves not to go beyond our reasonable boundaries. Friends will motivate us when we’re ready to give in, and they can provide for us when life falls apart.

What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself. It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to our friendship that we are not. Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make… your life bearable. A true friend is a greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

These are magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first… when you learn to live for others, they will live for you…

So folks… Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful…let those who do not seek their own kind. Shared joys make friend, not shared sufferings. Life without a friend is death without a witness…

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can- and surely will at times - fail other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take a risk.

Everyman has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Every minute of life you take a risk; it’s part of the enjoyment. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.

The important thing is this: to be able at my moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become… Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

In your life is ever going to get better, you’ll have to risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. Risk! Risk anything! Do the hardest things on earth for you…Act for yourself, Face the truth!

Father, I thank You for the people in my life who seem to bring more pain than joy, for I believe YOU have let our paths cross for important reason. Thank you for the good things You want to do in my life through the things that bother me (their moodiness? their unloving ways? their demands? their insensitivity? their unrealistic expectations? ) I’m grateful that You are with me, to meet my needs when others-even those close to me-fail to do so. I’m so glad that You are also within me, working to make me more like Jesus-more patient, more gentle, more loving-through the very things I dislike.

Thank You too that You love these people, and that Your love is adequate to meet their deep needs and transform their lives, however willful or unwise they may sometimes be.

Thank You that You care for them deeply, and that each of them has the potential of being a vast reservoir from which You could receive eternal pleasure. And so, though I may not feel grateful, I give thanks for them by faith, trusting Your goodness, Your wisdom, Your power, and Your love for them as well as for me. And I praise YOU that I need not fret about these people, or be envious, or mull over angry thoughts to prove I’m right.

Thank You that by Your power I can receive them as You receive me: just as I am, warts and wrinkles and hang-ups and all…that I can choose not to judge them, but to forgive them…to cancel any debts I feel they owe me – any apologies, any obligations…that through Your grace, I can choose to wipe clean slate of grievances I have within me and a view these people with heart that says, “ You no longer owe me a thing”.

Thank You for Your spirit who empowers me, so that I can do them good, delight in You, and commit my way to You, resting in You as You unfold Your good purpose in these relationships – in Your time…