Friends...

My first topic is friends.

Now I already know that I will get flack about this post. I know because I already stirred the pot back in May cuz I labeled someone a best friend and it hurt others feelings. I didn't mean to hurt anyone. You know at my age I am just thankful for friends that have been around for years and because I don't have 100's of friends I consider these girls or guys my "best" friends. I have a select few friends that know me intimately and I know I can trust them with anything. ~or so I thought.

I have best friends who adopt from China and with these friends we share this unique journey to grow our families.

I have best friends who I went to high school with and we share secrets that our kids cannot ever find out about. But these girls don't "get" adoption.

I have a best friend for the last 33 years and she knows my deepest secret in my world. Which in time will be revealed on this blog as I shed my past.

I have best friends I stamp with. We meet together and stamp and have fun we love each other.

I have a best friend that I don't see a lot, but our minds are almost one. We can say anything and never fear judgement.

I have a best friend who only understands one faucet of my life and she helps me through that valley when I come to it.

I have all of these different best friends because I love them all with my whole heart. Not all of these women know each other. Like children, I love them all equally but differently.

I suppose if I were a one dimensional person I would only have one "best" friend. But I am not one sided. I am so multi sided, maybe you could call it multiple personality!

So what happens when you offend your best friend? She tells you to straighten your sh*t up right? Well not mine. My punishment comes in the way of snub me in town, talk bad about me to other women, tell her kids to remove me from their Facebook and when the chance arrives humiliate me in public for sport.

So what should I do? PRUNE OR WAIT FOR FRUIT? Pruning would be the easiest, but that also means cutting off a family relationship of many years. I hate that saying that some friends are for a season. I can't imagine loving someone like a sister to just realize it was for a season only.

I will pray about this and see how I should explain to my five year old children that friends are only for a season.

Bewildered~