How To Be the Friend You Need

Making friends and building strong relationships isn’t easy, but it isn’t impossible and there are some steps you can take today to make it a reality!

Knowing I���d be single parenting for a week, I planned my time quite intentionally.�� We had events to attend and work to get done, but I���m not used to parenting alone��and the void I noticed when my husband was gone, even as I went about my normal routine, was huge.�� The days seemed longer, lonelier, and even with four kids, quieter.

It was on one of those particularly long and quiet afternoons that a friend sent me a text, ���bring the kids and come over for dinner tonight!����� It was as if she knew. I didn���t have to say the words, but she knew.�� That is communion lived out; that is a beautiful friendship.

We ate and chatted over grilled cheese and tomato soup and I left with a heart even fuller than my stomach.�� Friendship has the ability to do that.

We were made for union and communion, to connect and relate, to thrive in intimacy.�� We were made to know and be known and friendships are a beautiful expression of that.��

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