March 3, 2008

stop thinking about yourself!

sometimes you have to realize that even if you don't need someone's friendship anymore, they might still need yours. a lot.

...put others interests before your own....philippians 2
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4 comments:

nadine j. said...

I love you , Carol-Lee, I really do.

March 03, 2008
Anonymous said...

I love you too.
I just realized that I haven't even been keeping up with your blog! Speaking of friends . . . :)
I'm going to e-mail you soon. It was fun seeing you the other week.
Amy
p.s. baby says hi.

March 03, 2008
Jacinda Vandenberg said...

I think true friendship is when both people have a need for each other. Take a marriage, for example. If one of hte spouses decides he/she no longer needs the friendship and only treats the other because it's their biblical obligation, there's going to be BIG trouble.Because we're fallen human beings, we're not capable of always fulfilling our God given mandate. Our selfishness and pride will get in the way of our friendship when we think that the only one who's gaining something from the relationship is the other person.

I think that recognizing that friendship is a God given gift, in which both sides have an opportunity to show the other person that they're blessed by their friendship and benefit from their prescence as a child of God, is a godly thing.

After all, Christ (who doesn't NEED me in order to find benefit from our frienship) still chooses to make me feel loved and precious by USING me. In that way, He chooses to "benefit" from me even though He might not NEED it.

Hope that makes sense! :)

what do you think?

March 04, 2008
Carol-Lee Joy said...

I think that makes sense. Thanks for your insight Jacinda.

March 04, 2008

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