Friendship......Most Valuable now, though restricted in the scope of Eternity!

Friendship is risky, costly......
Friendship is meant to provide a refuge from loneliness, and a respite from self-criticism & the critique of an ever-demanding,  never-satisfied world. 
Friendship is a relationship of mutual enjoyment. 
It is a place where our hearts don’t have to work quite so hard to be heard & be understood & be accepted for whom you truly are.....
Friendship is supposed to offer a taste of what is coming when our souls will be fully known and completely at rest......
But, for NOW it is just a taste; a Prelude.....

People are NOT able to satisfy others' insatiable searching souls in a lasting way.
 “Fill me!” ........  “Satisfy me!” .....are cried from friends to friends, in vain........ 
True Friends have tried, & their offerings have been marvellous, -but never enough! 
The 'receiving friend' always has a leak, due to the shortcomings of.......... being human. 
Really, it’s a 'break in the pipe', & being aware of his/her own brokenness, 'the friend on the receiving end', has tried to hide it, exchanged / traded-in old friends for other 'new& better' friends to tend it, but even that just haven't worked. 
The 'ever-demanding urge' has backfired......... 

Solution.....?
Just Being.....a True Friend; Unconditional; non-demanding, an ever-giving without expecting anything, ever back...!

I have learned the hard way—and just about everything I have learned, I have learned the hard way, —including the beautiful freeing truth that Jesus is the only one who can satisfy one, long-term........
He’s actually the only one who is meant to!

Shalom ......& Maranatha