Today’s meditation is from the Women of Faith Bible Study “Embracing Your Strengths.”
Our lives have become incredibly fast-paced. We’re racing from work to practice to dinner with friends and back home to finish up chores and check e-mail while watching TV before hitting the bed much later than we planned. We’re exhausted and we’re too tired to do anything about it. But think back to before cell phones, online social networks, e-mail, and a dozen blogs to check daily. When you spoke to people face to face rather than online, did you feel a deeper connection? It’s easy to feel isolated in the “communication age” because we’ve become so accustomed to communicating with people that we have little relationship with. As we spread ourselves thin relationally, even our deepest friendships can feel the strain.
Prayer:
Written by Kathryn Shirey, a contemporary author.
Almighty Father, I give thanks today for the friendships in my life. Lord, this life isn’t meant to be lived alone, so I am grateful for the people who walk alongside me, supporting me, loving me, and encouraging me. For we cannot do it all alone but are better together. Help me to be more aware and gracious to my friends, appreciating them and accepting their help. Help me to be a better friend, too, supporting, loving, and encouraging others. Lord, lead me to find and cultivate deeper friendships and be a good friend in all that I do. Shower your blessings upon those I call friends, that you may ever be in our midst. Bind us together, Lord, for a cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Amen.
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