A Friendship Worth Keeping
How do friendships develop? Sometimes it is working together, having children on the same sports team, or a chance meeting at an event. Think about your most prized friendships. How did they start?
A year ago, I knew Ann’s first name. Nothing more. Today I consider her a good enough friend to let her apply the adjective “ditzy” to us. Ditzy is not a description most people would apply to me. I tend toward serious, responsible—not frivolous. But Ann’s description applied when she took this picture.
Hook’em and Book’em
Our friendship developed over the past year as we worked on a convention committee together. Seeing problems the same way was part of it. Having the same ambitions for the committee’s work was another part. But for me, the biggest part was honesty and integrity. What Ann said she was going to do, she did. Not marginally, but did well—above and beyond what I imagined. Now that is a person I want to have on my friend list because that friend, just by being who she is, challenges me to be better than I presently am. In Proverbs 27:17, it says, “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” So true.
But our relationship was not all work and no play. We have fun together. This picture is from the convention which culminated
How do you define true friendship? Here is my definition.
True Friendship: Iron sharpening iron with a little ditsy fun sprinkled in.