Girl-Friend

I'm just a girl who wants to be a friend. If I'm being totally honest, I've never been great at making friends. I'm the quiet girl and always have been. It's way out of my comfort zone to open up to others and allow myself to be vulnerable. If I keep quiet I can maintain the illusion that I have it all together. I have been reading this amazing book by Pastor Amie called "When Women Reign" and came to the chapter about relationships and realized just how much work I have ahead of me to be the kind of friend to others that really impacts their lives the way God intended. I have to give myself credit for improvements I have made over the years, yeah me!, but I still have a long way to go. "Oh what a joy for women of God to have these kinds of relationships that encourage us, build us up, and help us become so much more than we could ever become on our own!" - Pastor Jill    I want those kinds of relationships in my life, and it starts with the relationship I have with myself. "We are our own longest relationship. And the relationship we have with ourselves is the port to which all other relation-"ships" find harbor." - Pastor Amie    "I am fearfully and wonderfully made;" - Psalm 139:14    He has placed in me gifts that are unique to me and He has placed people in my life to help me to identify and develop those gifts. And then He has placed others so that I can give those gifts away. "People are in your life for a reason, for a season or forever." - Deion Sanders    Relationships, whether with God, yourself or others are an investment. You get out of it what you put into it. I think everyone in my life is a divine encounter and connection that God has orchestrated for one reason or another. I want to make the most of each one and give to others what He gives to me. He is the ultimate example of what friendship should look like. I hope that I can allow my relationship with Him to be reflected in my relationships with others.