What About Your Friends?

In the month of January, I have learned so many lessons, but I’ll just focus on one for this post. The lesson of friendship has been a reoccurring lesson that changes every time I think I’ve learned it.

I take friendships very seriously and view them as almost important as romantic relationships. With this level of expectation, I see that it comes with a high level of trust. That trust can transform into different aspects of the relationship, but the main one is trust with information. If I were to go to one of my friends with information about something that is bothering me, I trust them enough to keep that information confidential. I trust that that person has my best interest at heart. So when that trust is broken I see that there is a noticeable disconnect between me and the person.

This brings Joseph to mind. I believe that he trusted his brothers despite their animosity toward him. If he didn’t trust them then he wouldn’t have told them about his dreams. After they sold him into slavery, I wonder how he felt. Was he angry with them? Was he even surprised?

When a person breaks your trust are you able to forgive them and move on? A wise person said that people are in your life for a reason and a season. A lot of the time we have people in our lives during a “winter” season and then we move into “summer” with a winter coat on and wonder why we’re hot.

Take the coat off.