best friends

If there is one thing that I have always wanted, even as a little girl, it was a true blue friend. A best friend. Someone that you can depend on and make plans together. Someone that loved you for all the good, bad and ugly that you possess because they know that they are just the same. Someone who stands with you, at your side and possibly even in front of you when your enemies are trying to take you down. I've longed for nights filled with movie marathons, popcorn, laughter and tears. Borrowing each others clothes, getting into trouble together, growing together. Everything. But I've never had that. I've had good friends, but even with my very closest friends something was always able to pull us apart in one way or another. I just don't get it. I long in my heart for a friendship that is genuine, constant, dependable, loyal and fun ! One without betrayal. Filled with a sincere love, the way sisters are suppose to be. This type of friendship/relationship is different from your relationship with you husband. I think it is important to be best friends with your husband but I find it just as important to have a girl friend as well. Another Mother, and wife. Someone that you can relate with and talk with about different struggles that we all have as mothers and as wives.

I realize that i'm not the only person that feels this way. I think as humans we all long for that connection with someone. I think we all long for something stable and constant. However I think there is something that has been lost over the years between people and that is LOYALTY. Another word for loyalty is FAITHFUL. The meaning of faithful is : 

1.      strict or thorough in the performance of duty: 

2.

true to one's word, promises, vows, etc.

3.

steady in allegiance or affection; loyal; constant: faithfulfriends.

4.

reliable, trusted, or believed.

5.

adhering or true to fact, a standard, or an original;accurate: a faithful account; a faithful copy.                                                                                                                            

I do believe I have friends. I know I have friends. I have friends that live in other states, friends that I've met via IRL. I have friends that are playdate friends. Friends that are fun to go out with. Even still, I can't say that I have that one friend. The kind the Bible speaks of. The kind that sticks through it no matter how ugly things get. The kind that never talks bad about you and shuts the ones up that do. The kind of friendship that David and Jonathan had in the Bible. 

Proverbs 17:17a "a friend is always loyal"

Proverbs 18:24 " there are friends that destroy each other (not the kind of friend i want or want to be) but a real friend sticks closer than a brother."

Proverbs 27:6 "Wounds from a sincere friend are better than many kisses from an enemy"

Proverbs 27:27 "Iron sharpens  Iron , so a friend sharpens a friend"