¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

John 15:13 NIV

Being a friend means listening…just listening

Being a friend means putting the needs of others before your own

Being a friend means making time to be together

Friends can share thoughts…

Thoughts about dreams and goals as well as disappointments and frustrations without judgment

Being a friend means laughing together…often

Being a friend means offering your shoulder when someone needs to cry because the pain is too great to bear alone

A friendship is a give and take relationship…

If your give and take are not balanced evenly the friendship will suffer

This give and take in relationships is also necessary in your spiritual life…

Your friendship with Jesus requires both give and take…

We all have a friend in Jesus

Begin or continue to listen, to make time, to share your dreams and frustrations, to laugh with your friend Jesus…

It is the one friendship that will definitely last forever

“I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master’s business.  Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.”

                                                                                                                John 15:15 NIV

(This photo was taken at a lake place in central Minnesota)