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The Friends We Keep: A Woman's Quest for the Soul of Friendship
Why are women’s friendships so tricky?
During a particularly painful time in her life, Sarah Zacharias Davis learned how delightful–and wounding–women can be in friendship. She saw how some friendships end badly, others die slow deaths, and how a chance acquaintance can become that enduring friend you need.
The Friends We Keep is Sarah’s thoughtful account of her own story a...more
During a particularly painful time in her life, Sarah Zacharias Davis learned how delightful–and wounding–women can be in friendship. She saw how some friendships end badly, others die slow deaths, and how a chance acquaintance can become that enduring friend you need.
The Friends We Keep is Sarah’s thoughtful account of her own story a...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
July 21st 2009
by WaterBrook Press
(first published 2009)
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This book was about - you guessed it - friends. But not just any friends - women and their friends. Why we need them, how we make them, how we keep them, and even why we lose them.
Each chapter shared some one's story that was relevant to the point that the author was trying to make. A lot of the stories I could relate to, or at the very least, knew someone who would fit in it. She explores a lot of the different sides to friendships, like the different ways we can love a friend, why ...more
Each chapter shared some one's story that was relevant to the point that the author was trying to make. A lot of the stories I could relate to, or at the very least, knew someone who would fit in it. She explores a lot of the different sides to friendships, like the different ways we can love a friend, why ...more
Sarah Zacharias Davis has written a meditation on friendship which draws upon her own experience, stories from other women and relevant literary references. She shares with her readers the results of her own quest for understanding why friendship is such an integral part of a woman's soul. She discusses the negative aspects of damaging friendships, why women long for friends, the temporary versus the long term friendships and how to let go when necessary. By examining the negative emotions that ...more
In all actuality, when I first saw this book I didn't take it seriously. I tell you, by the end of, I really agreed with the author on many levels, and felt connected to the book. I learned quite a bit about my own relationships and friendships, and why us women do some of the things we do. This book opened my eyes, to try to be a better friend to everyone. Even the people with whom I'd rather not.
A very inspiring book, but only if you are female. I just don't think the men in the world wo...more
A very inspiring book, but only if you are female. I just don't think the men in the world wo...more
This is a thoughtful book about the friendships of women...at all ages, for any and all reasons. Favorite chapters are The Spaces Between Us and Companions Along the Journey. I've lost some friends over the past 2 years, regained two in a great, much deeper way. These chapters ask all the questions I did when these friendships were slipping through my fingers...maybe it was simply time to let go. I wish I had read this book sooner but it is wonderful to year and Sarah Zacharias Davis is a wo...more
"The fact is sometimes we are let down by our friends. Intentions may be good, efforts misguided, or they may have nothing left to give, and the result is simply that they are unable to be there for us in the ways we expect them to be."
"...there are times in friendship...when we need to simply accept what people are able to give. That is part of being a friend; in fact, that is part of living among others in any type of community. It is necessary to put away the expectations...more
"...there are times in friendship...when we need to simply accept what people are able to give. That is part of being a friend; in fact, that is part of living among others in any type of community. It is necessary to put away the expectations...more
The Friends We Keep by Sarah Zacharias Davis is a fascinating look at the friendships women carry with them throughout their lives and a glimpse into why they are so important. Davis' book is a warm-hearted and enjoyable read that delves into questions about exactly what creates and maintains a friendship. Why are some friends with us for life and others only for a season? What purpose does friendship serve? She uses movies, books, and anthropology to explain what friendship looks like and how i...more
Reads like a vignette of stories of friendship...which, if that was the intended purpose of the book, I may have enjoyed it more- however disappointingly, the cover promises answers to questions I'd still like to know...
Thoughtful and full of relevant comparisons. I wished it were more of a do's and dont's kind of book, but none the less, it made me take a long look in the mirror.
Worth reading.
Worth reading.
A very interesting read, gave me a lot of insight into how friendships begin, grow, and fade over different seasons of life.
way more christian than I can enjoy . . . some good points, glad it was short.
This book was a interesting look at friendship in particular related to Christian women. The author does a good job of covering various aspects of friendship in each chapter - even a chapter on being your own self-friend and why that's important. Overall, a more in-depth look at Christian friendship and why it's important.
Not as good of a book as I was hoping. Had a few good points but nothing new added to the other non-fiction friendship books I have read.
This author disappointed me. Too many references to movie characters in the first chapter. Then an evolutionistic type story shared in the second chapter. Where is the Bible in this? I can't read any more. This book wasn't for me.
it changed my outlook on friendship and the bond that women share. I will never look at life the same way since I've enconntered this book
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