Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five day a week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

Man, this is going to be a great week on the Five Word Prayers Daily because we're talking friendship, and in particular, female friendships.

But if you're a guy,

don't go anywhere because if you have a female in your life, you need to be really up on this to know what's going on with the female in your life and what she struggles with. Because

trust me, at some point, she will probably come to you and talk about it.

And ladies, how many of us need a whole week dedicated to friendships?

I know I do, and I look forward to it because here's what we are going to talk about all week and then you decide if you want to listen in, okay?

When to walk away from a toxic friendship, comparison, good old-fashioned jealousy and envy,

and gossip. Big stuff, right, and important to talk about, I think. And today, we're going to start with a beautiful positive, how to honor our

friends and be the kind of friend we most want to have right after this.

I didn't want to talk about friendships this week without talking about the positive of friendships and really where we should all be aiming because I think a lot of us

struggle to even know what we're looking for sometimes in a friend. I have a far away

best friend and an in-town best friend and both of them provide something for me and friendship that is invaluable to me.

My far-away best friend is one I've had for 24 years, Colleen.

She lives in another state.

We met in seminary, and we talk every morning around 7 to 45, like clockwork, except on the weekends when we honor the families being

home. We met in seminary, actually, introduced each other to each other's husbands, and were the

maids of honor in each other's wedding, of course. What else? And then Wendy, who is my in-town

best friend, has now been for 13 years since our middle boys were four and met in preschool.

How cute is that? They became best friends and then we couples followed suit and now Wendy's

husband and my husband are best friends and so are Wendy and I and we as couples vacation together

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