Friend Part 2 Revised

So I posted this earlier today but the formatting kept getting messed up so I just redid it...

So I am apart of alot of groups on facebook... and alot of them love to send mass messages and what not... I usually ignore them because they're inviting me to somewhere where I can't get to... I mean ignore like delete before even opening... well I'm sure glad I didn't with this one... Here's the message...


"Somethings of many things that has been laying on my heart are that I would like to bring up since this group is about relationship is friends and what they really mean, and what they are really for? The term "Friends" to me has been casually been thrown around and taken out of context. The Definition of a Friend Person who Knows, Likes, Trust, Allied in a struggle with, one who supports, sympathizes with. A friend is a lover literally "No Homo" If you look up the history Friend what I am writing can be confirmed My thing with the word friend , and why I think it is casually thrown around is you cannot find to many people that you can trust, people will not open up to you all the way because they have a trust issue. And How in the world can you support a person when you don't call them on a regular basis or the only time you here from the person is on the World Wide Web. As well you can not support a person if you disagree with everything they do, or have low expectations for them. How can you call somebody a friend when, they are going through a struggle, you are nowhere to be found, or your to selfish so you always say you don't have it, and watch the person struggle knowing that in some possible way you could of helped. These are some of the reasons why I think the term friend is totally taken out of context. Reasons listed above, negates the definition of the word friend, and there are great amount of people who call each other friends and they have in there "friendships" the above problems. I am not saying stop being friends with people, take longer then you usually do to call someone a friend, or holler at me for giving my opinion and telling the God honest truth.What am saying is to evaluate what and who you call friends. If you find yourself doing for people all the time, but when you are need its like a desert and God has to bring strangers in your life to bless you, you may want to take a look at that situation. If you find yourself always calling, and visiting a person but they never come to see how you are doing and they have means of doing so , you may want to evaluate that situation as well. If you find yourself confiding in people, and your business ends up on Facebook/Myspace National you may want to evaluate that. I can go on and on but I am not I will leave it to the other 600 members to comment on what a friend really is, and really is not.!!!"


This was like oh my goodness this is so true!!! I mean I feel the same way... this semester I've been struggling to be a true friend and trying to figure out what that meant... and I know I have my downfall but I mean dag... LOL... I've had so many "friends" I really don't know who to trust... and I now can see I definitely need to stop throwing that word around as lightly and freely as I do... I mean Jesus called us friend but it was only His close disciples... it wasn't the multitudes that followed him... and then he had 3 close friends... Peter, James and John... I guess I just expect everyone to be a close friend and I want that out of people because I want that to be for them... but I don't really need anyone... cuz in the words of the wonderful Vicki Winans... Long as I got King Jesus I don't need no one else... Ya heard?