Relationships
This morning I was very proud to hear news that two friends had sorted out their differences and were back to being best friends again…
It is so easy in any relationship to just ‘give up’ when you have a disagreement with someone. Whether it is a friendship-relationship, or girlfriend/boyfriend-relationship, it is common now to see people just walking away without sorting through the issues.
It is easy to walk away – it is much harder (but shows more strength) to actually talk through the issues. Of course, that doesn’t mean you will be able to talk about them straight away. Maybe there needs to be a temporary ‘walking away’ just to cool off and think through the problems. But at some point it is important to come back to the situation and work through the issues.
That doesn’t mean you still have to be ‘best friends’ or ‘girlfriend/boyfriend’ – sometimes things are said or done that mean you won’t be able to have that same relationship back again. But it is still important to work it through so that you don’t carry with you the pain of never having sorted it out.
We live in a ‘throw-away’ society today, whereby everything is replaceable… But some things are meant to be fixed – especially relationships…
These two friends that I mentioned thought they wouldn’t be able to reconcile their differences, but they did because they knew that their friendship was worth it. Is your relationship worth saving? Talk about it… If you can’t approach the other person yet, then talk to someone else about it (eg, a teacher, counsellor, chaplain, etc). Don’t let one comment or event spoil an important relationship…
Shalom 
