Wednesday, November 28, 2007
all for one or one for all
With this rapidly approaching graduation, I've been thinking a lot of our friendship over the past few years. I wouldn't change a thing. I know that perhaps our model of friendship may not be BBC beautiful, but it's worked out quite well for us. Rather than having a plethora of "friends" (300 or more on Facebook), we've deemed it more important to have close friends - ones with which we can actually confide and truly be ourselves. Seemingly, some have deemed it an issue that we almost exclusively hang out with each other, but, then again, they prove our point. Rather than trying to exhaust ourselves attempting to please the unpleasable, we've simply concerned ourselves with each other and have had a lot of fun in the process. I guess people just have to come to the point where they're willing to think through, "Am I going to try to do everything and do so poorly? Or am I going to do a few things and do them well?" Thinking of all those times we've gone to dinner together or stayed up together talking - just a few of us; I think we've done things well. I'm going to miss you guys. It's been real.
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Cheers to this! As McGrew has said, if anything is worth doing, it is worth doing well. Bogner may call us a cult or a clic, but maybe the best friendships can develop in this type of group. As iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another.
What good is it to be a king (one of mass popularity and influences) and then face the hardest parts of life alone? That is the question that Solomon weighed in on in the book of Ecclesiastes. We read in chapter 4 verses 9 and following that "true" companionship is to be valued above mass popularity. With what the Lord had me involved with at BBC I "knew" (by name) a lot of people but I only had a handful of true companions (Mostly the Bloggers on this site). Companionship breeds a genuine love that is lacking in the Church today. I was recently reminded by reading a Note on Facebook of a friend of Christ's words in John 15, "Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends" Christ showed me the greatest form of love and has called me to be one of HIS OWN. Amazing grace, how can it be? I consider it pure joy to have truly known and loved each and everyone of you and pray that God develops our relationships as we mature in the faith. Ecclesiastes 4:12 "Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken."
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