Friendship

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Friendship May you be blessed with good friends. May you learn to be a good friend to yourself. May you be able to journey to that place in your soul where there is great love, warmth, feeling, and forgiveness. May this change you. May it transfigure that which is negative, distant, or cold in you. May you be brought in to the real passion, kinship, and affinity of belonging. May you treasure your friends. May you be good to them and may you be there for them; may they bring you all the blessing, challenges, truth, and light that you need for your journey. May you never be isolated. May you always be in the gentle nest of belonging with your anam ċara. ~ John O’Donohue 1. Friendfluence - Friends contribute to making us who we are. It is said that we become most like our 5 best friends. Think about your closest friend. What three words would you to describe your closest friend? What three words might your friend use to describe you? 2. How do you find and select your friends? What are the characteristics that you look for or try to build in one another? 3. What are some of the ways that you invest in your friendships? Think and share ways you deepen or strengthen these relationships? 4. One role of a friend is encouraging one another in love. How do you encourage your friends? What does that look or sound like in your friendships? 5. Tell a story about how you have been encouraged by a friend. 6. We too, need encouragement, where do you go for a source of encouragement? What has been encouraging for you in the past. How do you feel lifted up and supported. 7. Often, we can find our faith strengthened by those closest to us. How might your friendships strengthen your faith? 8. What change or adjustment might you be called in make in your friendships? 9. How is your faith, family, friendship and career balance? Are you content with the time that you are investing in each one?