A Prayer to Be the Friend You Want to Have

Your Daily Prayer

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	A Prayer To Be The Friend You Want To Have by Meg Booker,
0:19.8	read by Leah Martin.
0:23.3	Walk with the wise and become wise for a companion of fools suffers harm.
0:29.0	The sight of six girls sleeping in the loft of her new home instantly made my heart skip
0:36.1	with gratefulness and joy.
0:38.1	Over the past several years I've been on a journey with those girls in their small group
0:41.7	Bible study.
0:43.2	They haven't always gotten along.
0:45.6	Each has gone through their own growing pains.
0:48.2	Some didn't show up for a while, but there they were together, and talking about how much
0:54.4	they appreciated the friendship for which they had fought so hard, because that's what
0:59.8	it is.
1:01.1	It's a fight.
1:03.2	When we say, be the kind of friend you want to have, it's a bold and beautiful statement.
1:09.4	It's also extremely hard to flesh out.
1:14.1	It means forgiving friends when we're hurting, and they aren't apologizing.
1:20.9	It means welcoming friends back after they ditched us for a while, and it requires us
1:26.9	to love unconditionally.
1:31.3	We all want friends who love us like this, like Jesus loves us, but we often aren't willing
1:37.0	in our double standard and hypocritical tendencies.
1:41.4	We don't want to take the plank out of our own eye and be that kind of a friend to our
1:45.8	friends, to the other people God's placed in our lives.
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