My Perfect Friendship
So I am back to my blogging again... sign of being my normal self again ya? :) Thanks to the 15-year-old gal blogger.
The phrase "No Mortal PERFECT Friend" somehow got stuck in my head. It has a lot of significance for me. The realization that the perfect friendship for me is not just one person, but a few persons, makes me no longer feel disappointed with certain people.... it has lowered my expectation in a person. The only perfect person is Jesus Christ.
So now I want to thank God that I can have different people in my life who can meet my following needs...
Someone to share about my spiritual walks with.
Someone to help in my blog designs with.Someone to cry with.
Someone to laugh with.
Someone to make music with.
Someone to sing with.
Someone to eat with.
Someone to talk about politics with.
Someone to talk about works with.
Someone to debate with.
Someone to make me feel not so weird with.
Right, someone for each different need I have. With all these different friends I would have got a 'perfect friendship'. Isn't it? Most importantly, I have Jesus who died for me... the greatest Friend of all.
Thank God for all these friends who have helped meet my needs. Each of them are important to me in their unique way. I hope I am also a friend to them in some ways too.
Labels: friendship
posted at 5/29/2006 12:28:00 AM |
Name: Bee
7 Comments:
A kind mouth multiplies friends, and gracious lips prompt friendly greetings.
Let your acquaintances be many, but one in a thousand your confidant.
When you gain a friend, first test him, and be not too ready to trust him
For one sort of friend is a friend when it suits him, but he will not be with you in time of distress.
Another is a friend who becomes an enemy, and tells of the quarrel to your shame.
Another is a friend, a boon companion, who will not be with you when sorrow comes.
When things go well, he is your other self, and lords it over your servants;
But if you are brought low, he turns against you and avoids meeting you.
Keep away from your enemies; be on your guard with your friends.
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure.
A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth.
A faithful friend is a life-saving remedy, such as he who fears God finds;
For he who fears God behaves accordingly, and his friend will be like himself.
Sirach 6:5-17
Bee wrote:So I am back to my blogging again... sign of being my normal self again ya?
You are like orange juice - there used to be a marketing slogan in this part of the world: "A say without orange juice is like a day without sunshine."
Haha... so now I am like "orange juice" to u ya? ;)
I like your quotes:
A faithful friend is a sturdy shelter; he who finds one finds a treasure.
A faithful friend is beyond price, no sum can balance his worth.
A faithful friend is a life-saving remedy, such as he who fears God finds;
For he who fears God behaves accordingly, and his friend will be like himself.
Yes, now I don't need my friends to be 'perfect', I just need them to be "faithful".
Guess the world is like a jig saw puzzle...
We are the pieces...
We are connected to each other, some people complement us and we complement others...
Together we get the big picture.
;-p
The quote comes from the Wisdom of Sirach. A text accepted by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox churches (and a few others I may not be aware of). The earliest group to split were the Oriental Orthodox more than 1500 years ago. The text is also occaisionaly quoted in rabbinic literature (although it is not part of teh official Jewish canon).
However, I know that you do not recognize it as canonical. Pity, because it is one of my favourite texts.
You may also like this snippet:
My child, when you come to serve the Lord,
prepare yourself for testing.
Set your heart right and be steadfast,
and do not be impetuous in time of calamity.
Cling to him and do not depart,
so that your last days may be prosperous.
Accept whatever befalls you,
and in times of humiliation be patient.
For gold is tested in the fire,
and those found acceptable, in the furnace of humiliation.
In sickness and poverty put your trust in him.
Trust in him, and he will help you;
make your ways straight, and hope in him.
Those who fear the Lord do not disobey his words,
and those who love him keep his ways.
Those who fear the Lord seek to please him,
and those who love him are filled with his law.
Those who fear the Lord prepare their hearts,
and humble themselves before him.
Let us fall into the hands of the Lord,
but not into the hands of mortals;
for equal to his majesty is his mercy,
and equal to his name are his works.
Sirach 2:1-5,15-18
NJS said... Guess the world is like a jig saw puzzle...
So we must be the right shape to fit into the right space... cannot anyhow place right? :P
Richard said... However, I know that you do not recognize it as canonical
To me, they are just like poem or wise sayings like what we usually read elsewhere.
Good to hear that - some are less open than that.
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