Healthy friendships

One Christian author has written: 'Today, true friendships seldom occur. Very few sing the praises of friendship because very few have experienced its heights.'

Someone else has said that 'friendship is God's way of apologising to us for our families'!

Perhaps for some, friendship is a very painful topic where reaching out and offering the hand of friendship has led to rejection or a betrayal of trust. It may be that for some, the experience of the school playground - not being part of the 'in' group - isolated with no friends to call our own, has left its mark on us to this day. Bemused by the whole concept, profoundly discouraged by our early bad experiences, we shy away from friendship altogether.