It Takes a Village-Part 1
I read an article once that said every person should have at 6 least friends in their life. According to this article, everyone should have 3 same gender friends: One older than them, one younger than them, and one of the same age. It also states an individual should have 3 friends of the opposite gender. Yes, you guessed it: One older than them, one younger than them, and one of the same age. Interesting, no?
Now I know there are people who say men and women can’t be friends with out sex being involved ( which is a whole different post to come). But let’s look at this closer… and I will use myself as an example.
Female friends: I do have female friends of all ages. I consider all of them precious, but they do have different and necessary roles in my life. My older friends and that includes my mother, are there to play a mentoring role. I like knowing I have people in my life with years of wisdom and experience who when asked, can and will share with me. Sometimes I just need to know that I can get through whatever is getting me down at that moment, because they have “already been there.”
My same age friends are my “girls”; The ones who I am actively “doing life with.” I need these friends to help me make it through the day to day grind of being family chauffer, manager, cook, housekeeper, financial advisor and still keep the “home fires burning.”
My younger friends are the ones who “keep me young.” At 52 years old I have come to the reality that I am passed middle age and starting the slide down the other side of the hill. I need my younger friends to keep me current and energize me with their endless energy! I also feel I am a mentor to my younger friends and hopefully a role model so they can see life does not end at middle age.
Titus 2: 3-5 "Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God."
Coming up will be exploring the concept of men and women as friends, as well as the topic of what is means for women to be "SUBJECT" to their husbands, which is something I know is a touchy subject for some....
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