We’re Not Made to Isolate

We are relational. God made us that way. We’re not made to isolate. Relationships are spoken about in Ecclesiastes 4. While this passage is often spoken about marriage, it can also describe a true friendship.

Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, 12

It Doesn’t Matter

Friendships like these have no boundaries. They cross state lines and they are not ruled by age. You can have a relationship with a good friend that started when you were young, or the friendship can be recent. But you know when God brings a person into your life.

Care for it

We must all take care of our friends. If we’ve offended them, make amends and ask how you can make it right again.

A good friend of mine, Tammy Whitehurst, interviewed Shelly Brown on the topic of friendship. Check it out. Shelly Brown can currently be found in social media. Watch for her website to go live!

My first novel, Ladies of the Fire is about friends like these.

Want to see how it all began?

Can a woman on the run find herself again?

Ladies of the Fire brought us to the late 1960s as we met the newly-widowed Lily-Rose Pembrick reeling as she fled Lincoln, Nebraska, with her children. Only taking the cash from the house safe and what she could get her hands on at the family bank, she left the recently-inherited and successful Pembrick Transportation company behind. Exhausted from driving all night, she stopped in Applegate, Ohio, and decided to start a new life on Norwood Street. There, she met Fiona Kasey, an African-American no-nonsense housekeeper/companion to an elderly white woman, and Sugar Bowersox, a Southern spitfire who has lost herself in motherhood.

Together, they enjoyed Lily-Rose’s backyard fire pit, where dreams were spoken and secrets revealed. As they embraced a kinship they never would have sought, Lily-Rose began thinking her past could finally be laid to rest—until someone ended up dead.