Christina’s Reviews > Made for People: Why We Drift into Loneliness and How to Fight for a Life of Friendship > Status Update

"Cabin weekends and campfire and getaways and late-night conversations go a long way to creating moments, but we don't need extraordinary acts to create extraordinary moments. They come just by being brave enough to use words and moments on purpose.
I remember these places that have grown rich with the memories of friendship. And that is a grace that sustains. So my advice is this:don't wait for the memories to come"

" The promise of social media is to be fully seen and liked. But the promise of covenant friendship is to be fully known and fully loved. The two are very different....
Sending a picture of your day is a great update but is no substitute of a shoulder beside You. The list goes on. When we spend our relational time snacking on technology, we will die from the preventable disease of loneliness."

"The beauty of inclusion is that we, in some small but real relational way, invite broken people into the spiritual wholeness of friendship.
Without ever speaking, the beauty of inclusion in friendship nonetheless proclaims something incredible: that we are all messed up and broken, and we all struggle with excluding one another, but we can imitate Christ and invite one another in.
That is where the good life is.”

“Having a friend who loves you enough to tell you the truth is rare. But honesty is the art of a true friend.
If vulnerability means having the courage to speak the truth about yourself, then honesty means having the courage to speak the truth about someone else.
This art of friendship can be broken into two habits—encouragement and rebuke. Both take honest words; one to name the good, the other to name the danger.”

" Vulnerability was the doorway to new live because vulnerability is the doorway to true friendship. "

“You may be in a place of loneliness now, but that is not your final destination. Jesus will not leave you there. He promises a different future.
So let us do something about it. The practice of friendship is the way we act out the prayer ‘May your kingdom come.’ You were made for friendship.It is what You long for. It's what the whole world needs.
This book is about how to fight for IT.