One On Friendships.

Friendship involves recognition or familiarity with another's personality. It's said that true friends are hard to find and I couldn't agree more in such an isolatory and self-centered world.
I believe though, that everybody needs a good friend in their life. We are not made to be alone.

❄TIME: Building a good friendship takes time. To know each other, to build and share memories and to invest in each other's growth. In short, friendships grow.
❄ACTIONS: They express our love for our friends. Actions complement words, because words alone can't do the trick. A gift, once in a while, going over to spend time and the likes. It's also genuine enough when we do all this without expecting anything in return. Of course you have to weigh the situation so that you don't end up being the only one 'giving' in the friendship. At times it's easier said than done, but it's not impossible. In good friendships, you will not fear judgement or criticism.
❄TRUST: Everyone needs someone with whom they can share thoughts, ideas and feelings. It's important to keep to self whatever is told to you by a friend who trusts you. Loyalty; Faithfulness! Next to love, trust is a strong pillar to great friendship.
❄DEPENDABILITY: A good friend doesn't always have to have the solutions to all problems but simply being there means a lot.
❄SACRIFICE: Jesus, our ultimate friend, loved us so much, that He lay down his life for us. That's the best definition of sacrifice -  when it's more about the other and less about you.

There's more I could point out, but this one sums it up:
💖❄LOVE: Unconditional love. When we have love in our hearts,  then the rest of the qualities won't be as difficult to practise. Friends are God's way of taking care of us. And God is love:)

Genuine friendships bear a great sense of caring and concern for one another, a desire to see one another grow and develop and a hope for each other to succeed in all aspects of life. It'd be so wonderful if we'd all be as enthusiastic about the success of others as we are about our own. It'd be great if we always spoke health and prosperity into each other's lives.

A dear friend once shared this with me..
☀Keep older friends for wisdom.
They are wiser because they have more experience hence they are best placed to mentor you in different aspects of life.
☀Keep friends of your age for measure.
When friends of your level are slightly above you,  it should challenge you to work as efficiently as they did to get to where they are and beyond. In the same vein, if your friends seem to be left behind a little, it's your chance to hold their hand and pull them up along with you.
Just a wisdom nugget about success:
It's like a ladder. And in the ladder of success, it's good to climb along with others, so that in case you slip, those below you will hold you up. Otherwise if you climb by yourself, you may slip and end up falling completely, because they'll be nobody to hold you up or to help you pick yourself up.
☀Keep younger friends for relevance.
Just as you look up to others, you may not know but there are also those who look up to you. Are you a good example they can emulate?

Forgiveness. None of us is unerrant. Friends are likely to wrong each other but it is important to apologize and/or forgive each other to sustain the friendship. It's not always, that we will have the patience to deal with certain circumstances whereby friendships seem to be rather rocky. But we can pray about it We can pray about anything! God gives guidance..

A good example of great friendship in the Bible would be that of David and Jonathan (see 1st Samuel 20)
I hope this has encouraged you, to pull up your socks where you have failed before as well as to keep doing what you have been doing right so as to maintain healthy friendships as Christ would love it.

Be a blessing to your friends. Pray also, and God is gracious enough to bring good friends your way.

Love,
Laura.