Friendship Zone

Friendship Zone

The playground carousel accelerates
Children grasping tight until
Around and around with blazing speed–
Spinning, racing faster still.
With blurring colors, dizzy vision
An un-grounding, shout-sounding heart-pounding thrill.

Each brave soul jumps, holding firmly
Because of the ever-increasing speed.
Filling one spot after another
Hoping the pace will not exceed
What they can take – “Hey, don’t stand alone!
Sit next to me! A friend is what we need!”

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A friend who shares, who sits right there,
Who knows just what you’re going through.
A friend who knows you and always shows you
Their friendship is honest and strong and true.

Round and round our life is moving
At blazing speed, racing faster still.
With blurring colors, dizzy vision
“Can I survive this all until
I get to jump off? I’m not strong – I’m not sure:
I can’t do this alone, this long walk uphill.”

Each brave soul jumps, holding firmly
Because of the ever-increasing speed
Searching for another person
Hoping this ride will not exceed
What they can take – “Hey, room for another!
A friend is what both you and I need!”

A friend who shares, who sits right there,
Who knows just what you’re going through.
A friend who knows you and always shows you
Their friendship is honest and strong and true.

We need each other, intensely, immensely;
We were never meant to live life alone.
We are called in this life to know God -
And we have the privilege to help make Him known.
Included into this blurring carousel ride of life
Is the astounding, heart-pounding friendship zone.
jsi





Does someone around you need a real tried and true friend today?
Be the breath of God to someone's heart: bring hope, be a friend.

Love each other deeply.

God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and matures in us, so that we’re free of worry on the Judgment Day – our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s. There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life – fear of death, fear of judgment – is one not fully formed in love.

We though, are going to love – love and be loved. First we were loved, now we love. He loved us first.

If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating his brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, he is a liar. If he won’t love the person he can see, how can he love the God he can’t see? The command we have been give from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve got to love both.
1 John 4:16-21 The Message