What Makes a Good Friend?

7 Thoughts +16 Quotes About Friendship

What Makes a Good Friend?

Are you a good friend? Do you have any good or even great friends? Friendship depends a lot on the friend that you are to your friends. Recently I’ve realized that while I am so focused on writing books, I have not been the best of friends like I should be. So what are good friends all about? Do we need them?

“Friends, like all good things in this life, can be had by any one who wants them.

There is only one simple rule to follow; it is this: to have a friend, be one yourself.” – Unknown

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Remember the Widows

Sad women

“Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.” Isaiah 1:17b

I have read in the Bible many times that we should care for the widow. Many verses that I have focused on throughout the years referred to taking care of the widow, praying for the widow, or, as in the verse above, pleading for the case of the widow. Instead, I focused on the fatherless and the oppressed. I sought justice through supporting human trafficking awareness.

A while back, one of my classmates died. He was young in my consideration. He left an even younger widow. I was heartbroken because he died after a long health struggle. He was in his mid-60s. Too young to die.

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