Aug
17
The Wisdom of Our Youth
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I was sitting in my room this afternoon pondering over the awesomeness of our God. He completely WOWed me today. That’s a fantastic story, but not the purpose of this post. But I was sitting there, as my cat curled up in my lap, purring as he does best, and my eyes scanned across an old photo. It was a picture of myself and my two best friends in high school. We did a lot of crazy stuff back then. If those of you who know me now think I’m weird and crazy, y’all should have known me back then…there was little restraint on my weirdness. Some of the stuff we did was pretty ridiculous and I look back and wonder what we were thinking…or if we were thinking at all.
But as another thing popped into my head, the longer I lingered on that one, the more it seemed almost wise. One of my friends had started dating a new guy. Well, this guy was not from our home town (her dad lived in a different city) and the other two of us decided he needed to fill out an “application” if he wanted to date her. We weren’t doing it to be mean or anything, we just didn’t know him and wanted to make sure he was good enough for our friend.
Then I wondered, why don’t we do stuff like that these days? Our friends are our life and our family. They mean the world to us and when they hurt, we hurt. Yet sometimes we sit back as they go through hurt after hurt, pain after pain, failed relationship after failed relationship. Why don’t we take more of a part in our friends’ love lives…I mean we’re the ones they go to when things are great and when they get rough, it’s almost like we’re a part of the story anyway.
I know it’s easier said than done. People don’t want to listen to you when you tell them the guy they’ve been dating is a jerk, when all they see are hearts and stars. This guy could do no wrong. And it’s also difficult when our friends don’t let us into the difficult parts of their lives to let us help out. (This could lead to another blog for yet another time.)
I think we should take better care of one another…and let others in so they can take better care of us.