I’ve been impatient. Restless. And while I wouldn’t classify my current temperament as ungracious, I would definitely say I’ve been somewhat of a brat lately in both my actions and my demands of God.
So when I’m impulsive and stubborn and defiant, my friends challenge me, support me, and uncoditionally love me- even when I’m being crazy.
Thank God for friends.
St. Francis de Sales writes: “It is lovely to be able to love on earth as one loves in heaven, and to learn to love one another in this world as we will eternally in the next. I am not speaking here of the simple love of charity, because we must have this for all people; I am speaking of spiritual friendship, in the ambit of which two, three or more persons exchange devotion, spiritual affections, and truly become one spirit” (Introduction to the Devout Life, III, 19).
Love and Truth Will Meet 