The other day, I got one of those emails that you were asked to send on to 10 people or something bad would happen. I always delete these emails, but this one had a message that resonated for me. It didn’t attribute the author, so I can’t give credit here. My apologies.“People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are.They are there for the reason you need them to be. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.”
Friends are like balloons; once you let them go, you might not get them back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own lives and problems that we may not even notice that we've let them fly away. Who have you let fly away and what will you do to let them know they’re still important?
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Something that amazes me about Baha'i friendships is that they can span over the course of a lifetime.
No matter where you live or for how long you are away when you see a Baha'i friend again after many, many years the bond is still so strong. These friendships begin to build bonds that are as strong as or stronger than family ties.
The Baha'i Writings tell us about the dangers of back-biting. I have kept this in mind in my friendships and try to refrain from gossip and other negative talk.
That's a good point. I've always found it intriguing that the Kitab-i-Aqdas admonishes us against backbiting and lists it after murder. As though to remind us that "Backbiting quenchth the light of the heart and extinguishs the life of the soul." (Just paraphrasing there)
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