Today I read Sandpiper's Thoughts and the Epistle reading of 1John 5: 9-13. Being a "friend" has so many levels of meaning to me and I suspect to others, in today's world. Reminds me of the words we might say to each other - "of you (loved me/ were my friend) you would do (such and such). Quakers are the Society of Friends - on Facebook we have Friends - sometimes people we have never met.
Then there are people we are conversant with and they are my friends. And people I worship with - they are my friends. Neighbors are my friends - even the ones I would rather not spend much time around...
I say that since my children became adults, we can be friends. And I have people that are friends, that I consider family.
So, if Jesus chose me to be his friend, which has been written in the bible, should I not accept that friendship and hold it with the higher level of friend such as my children and those I consider family? And if I am Jesus' friend, then it is up to me to be an example of the kind of friend I hold most dear, not the ones I prefer not to spend time around?
So God, today especially, let me be the kind of friend you want me to be - the kind I want to share time and space with - let me be a witness to your unending, unconditional love. Let this be my prayer and my action, today and always.... though I am human ....
Thanks be to God.
