Just a little food for weekend thought from, who else, but C.S.Lewis:
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
What a gift our friends are! Our little group of women, named the "January Girls" (we all have birthdays in January), have had such an amazing time this weekend. Really, it's just been lots of talking and eating and walking and marveling in the wonder of God's creation and talking and relaxing in the sweet Bahamian sunshine and laughing and more talking. And C.S.Lewis is right--that is where friendship is born: the realization that you are not the only one who feels a certain way or who has certain struggles or who laughs at certain jokes.
It doesn't mean you are the same. O no, far from it. We January Girls differ wildly in so many ways. But similarity is not the basis of friendship. Heart to heart sharing and vulnerability feeds the priceless gift of fellowship. In fact, the differences are part of the gift--to see life through a whole new lens, to gain a fresh perspective on those old patterns of your thinking that can take you out of those ruts in which you've been trudging along. And don't we all need a bit of shaking up? A bit of the wild adventure of taking a risk to leave the routine behind and see that God's world and His people and His gifts are varied and wondrous and worth exploring?
So today, be willing to love another, to see your world with a fresh perspective, and to refuse to assume that your way, your views, your opinions are always the only right ones. As C.S.Lewis says, "To love at all is to be vulnerable." But not to love is to miss the riotous joy of living. To miss the privilege of breaking out of the prison of your selfishness in order to love and serve someone else. And to miss how big and great our God is that He could make others to love you even with all your flaws. Let's don't miss all God has for us in the gift of loving others. To God be the glory.
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