Friendship – real friendship
- Kim Sherwood
- Jan 4, 2024
- 2 min read
Daily writing prompt
What is the greatest gift someone could give you?
Hello Friends,
Thinking about how to answer this question made me think. I don’t like fancy gifts. Sure if someone gave me a gift that they thought I would like I would accept it. But I am not one for flashy gifts like purses or watches. Even the latest smartphone isn’t something I would want. These days and this time in my life I am all about the practical gifts. Things that I can use over and over again. Things that have more than one use.
But all the things in the world wouldn’t fill the biggest need. The most precious gift, the greatest gift for me to receive is someone’s friendship. True friendship where they are there when things go down hill and you need a hand to get back out of the hole you find yourself in. Someone you can call and meet up with and enjoy a conversation and coffee. Someone you feel comfortable around enough to let them really get to know you. The would be the greatest gift I could receive.
So many people have an agenda when they meet people. They are more concerned about what they can get out of the friendship or relationship then what they can give. I have a wonderful friend in my husband and he knows everything about me and even with all my many faults he continues to love me. Just like Yahweh is a very close friend, I may not get to see Him but I can read his words daily and sense his presence. My having a best friend that is a woman will happen at some point. I have to be very careful with who I let in my circle. I have been hurt too many times by people who said they were my friends and then turned around and walked away from me during my darkest times. It is during the darkness that people need their friends to walk with them and keep them on the path.
I tend to be more of a loyal friend and need someone who is the same way in my life. I would love a female friend that I could go shopping with, go browse antique stores with. Sit by the campfire and drink coffee or hot chocolate with. Someone who is real and authentic and doesn’t have to be better then everyone else. For now I will wait for Yahweh to ready my heart and finish healing me before revealing my truest friend to me. After all only the friendships that are centered on Him will be the ones that I want and cherish.
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