Friends!:)

I think that friends are great! They are there for you when you need them and are fun to be around. In the bible it tells us it is important to have friends. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 says, "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work:  If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken." Clearly God is telling us that we need friends. Some qualities I look for in friends are:

1.) Honesty
2.) Trustworthiness
3.) Good sense of humor
4.) Common interests
5.) Someone who will build me up and support me
6.) Someone who will tell me when I'm doing something wrong

And more. I want my friends to be honest and trustworthy, because I want to be able to tell them things I'm going through and have them help me without having to worry about them telling other people my personal struggles. I want them to have a good sense of humor because I love to laugh and if you never make any jokes or think anything is funny, then I'm just not gonna want to be around you! We need common interests so that we can have something to talk about. I don't want someone who is always rude and tearing me down, that would just get old and annoying after a while. Especially if they are trying to make jokes all the time about me. The bible says we need to build each other up in love and not tear each other down. (1 Thessalonians 5:11) I want a friends who will tell me when I'm doing something wrong and not be afraid of me. Who will care enough about me so that they will tell me to stop doing something that could hurt me. One thing I don't think that is necessarily for someone to be my friend is the Christian quality. Yeah, yeah the bible says not to be unequally yoked and my best friend isn't gonna be an atheist, but how are you supposed to reach out to people and talk to them about God if you're not their friend? Jesus' friends were sinners also. He has his main circle of good friends, but he almost never hung out with priests.

I definitely need to get better about gossipping and talking about people behind their backs. Sometimes people will tell me their secrets and I'll tell someone else which is terrible and I need to stop, so basically I need to get better at being trustworthy. Also, I need to be nicer. I can get pretty mean sometimes. Especially if I'm tired or hungry or something, which isn't an excuse but I can have a bad attitude about things sometimes.

One of my best friends goes to Enid High, her name is Kylie Castillo. She is the grade above me and I've known her since I was little. We go to the same church and she's my neighbor. She's super funny and nice and I look up to her alot and she helps me through my problems and gives me good, christian advice! We talk about everything, it's pretty nice.