I came to know Christ in my early 20’s. As past friendships couldn’t weather the change and I wanted to grow in my faith, I found myself in a place of really needing to find Christian community while having zero, zilch, nada idea of how to do that. Now after 18 years of relationship building inside the church, I’ll share my patented, full-proof, magic formula (ha!) for getting to know others, which is: keep showing up and then keep showing up.
Hello Friends! I hope all of you are happy and healthy. April is Stress Awareness month, which is a little too on the nose right now. The world is so different than it was just a month ago. It’s almost too much to wrap my mind around. If you are like me, it is easy to get worked up about things that you cannot control. I would have never considered myself a control freak before COVID-19, however that has changed. Now, I find myself in a cyclical thinking pattern trying to figure out the point of all of this.
“I’ve been in the Beth Moore Entrusted Bible Study and she’s talked a lot about mentoring. I really feel this is something I’m supposed to be doing. Can you help me? Do you have a place for me somewhere?” That question was my introduction to the amazing Amy Morreillon. She has become such an immeasurable gift to CRBC and the host of young women she has befriended that interviewing her seemed the perfect ending to this February’s month-long emphasis on friendship.
When you consider the friendships in your life, in general, what is the average length? Are most of your friendships newer? Are most long term? Or maybe you have a happy medium with a little bit of both. Since the two of us have been best friends for almost as long as we can remember, we thought we would share a bit from our perspective on long-term friendships.
Hello Friends! I am thrilled to write about something I am passionate about—loving your friends well. Thankfully it is finally February, the month of love. It is easy to get bogged down from seeing love all over the place if you are single or going through difficult circumstances, but, no matter your relationship status, it is helpful to your friends and yourself to love others well!
“Kyla, it’s 100% cancer. There’s nothing else that looks like this.” Those were the radiologist’s words the day I went in to check out the small lump I’d felt on my right breast two months prior. I was just going in for a quick appointment to clear my conscience of this annoying little spot that had crept up seemingly overnight. Instead, I received this crushing news, alone, on March 8, 2018 at the age of 35. I needed a friend
Our world is hungry for connection. People are desperate to belong somewhere. Because of technological advancements and virtual social platforms, we are seemingly more connected than ever online, yet, in reality, we are more isolated than ever. The need to be known and loved has become more apparent in each of us. The culture we live in has found momentary solutions for this isolation with a resurgence of spaces like food courts, clubs, and interest groups.
