Real Life Real Faith Wisdom for Everyday Life May/June Issue | Page 17

WISDOM FOR EVERYDAY
LIFE
LIFESTYLE
FEATURE
“In my mind, those queries should be all that it becomes. I feel without recourse that true
would give credence to incredible insight on friendship, especially in an Agape way is our only
how we treat people we care about. Before I refuge in times of misfortune and penury.  The
came of age, I did silly and stupid things that Lord intended for us to be our brothers' keeper,
didn’t give me leverage understanding the to love our neighbors, and obey other
importance of forging meaningful components of the Ten Commandments that
relationships that last. I wasn't endowed should govern our lives. Believe it or not, there
enough with learning modules, nor was I a are some who will not be invited to circles of
child of God at the time. I paid a price and a
valued lesson becoming magnified while
doing away with mediocre tendencies. I
matured and turned away from a corrupted
mind into a corrected situation that allowed
me to see the folly of my ways on the way to
depending on a Christian mindset to fuel a
formal infrastructure.
I feel most confident in sharing why I feel we
cannot afford not to be benevolent and caring
in how we look at relationships that are
fortified and flavored with favor. Moreover, I
believe that no one would prefer to be without
friends even if they had all the other good
influences, nor will they elicit a heart bent on
embellishing others. Selfish intent and greed
has shipwrecked many on beaches full of elusive
sand through the hourglass of misfortune. How
then can one be a true friend? Becoming a
Christian as you adhere to 'He who sticketh
closer as a Brother' shouldn't be ignored. Good
beginnings are par for any course where balance
can bridge gaps for a closer walk with God.
Learning to be treated with respect, and
allowing a reciprocal approach thereof wouldn't
hurt. Anyone you consider as a friend is not one
who encourages you to come down to your
lowest level, encourages you to do foolish things
things that wasn't achieved with honest intent along with him, or fall into bad habits. Likewise,
in life. The rich, powerful, and the famous you can't invite everyone into your circle.
indeed need friends more than anyone else, for Goodwill for mankind to be right with Him and
it is a fact that money doesn't always beget with each other is purposeful enough using
happiness. Their wealth and position serves existing relationships and developing new ones
little purpose if it cannot be used to benefit as bridges through which to share the Gospel. I
those less fortunate, both in a vein that is feel strongly too, that it means to be done in
common and commendable. Nor can it be concert with fellow believers in familial settings,
protected without  a modicum of friendly and how you can enlarge your community. Not
resolve, for the greater it is, the more vulnerable to many know and understand that mankind is