How To Love A Friend When It's Difficult

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How To Love A Friend When It's Difficult

I have written and rewritten this post at least 3 different times. Each time, words failed me as I tried to answer how to love a friend when it’s difficult. I started off by listing all the ways I’ve been there for friends who made it hard to be around, but I could never finish.

Truthfully, I felt inadequate about writing this post. A fraud, even. How could I tell you how to best love your difficult friends when I have failed miserably. Over the last year, I have been so self-absorbed with my pregnancy and David’s TDY’s (military work trips), deployment, etc... I have neglected my own friends.

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Be the Kind of Woman who Wants to see Other Women Flourish

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Be the Kind of Woman who Wants to see Other Women Flourish

Regardless of your beliefs on a woman’s role in society, I urge you to take a second and consider my words. Instead of judging your sister for her perceived effect on the feminist cause, can you instead focus on uplifting her and encouraging her to follow God’s prompting for her life?  

All too often, we allow the fear of being judged to remove what it means to be the woman we were created to be. Girly-girl or tomboy, baker or grill master, whatever the preference, it's a personal choice that should not be influenced by the society around us. Don’t let fear or culture steal that choice from you.

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