Friends

Noticing that you were sitting alone at coffee this morning, Murphy jokingly asked if you had any friends. He went silent when you said he was your friend. Afterwards, you thought about friendship. Ideas of these special relationships flooded your mind. You’ve known their importance, but rarely analyzed them.

True friends are as natural as water flowing over rocks in a stream—the bond is that close. Friends never threaten your stream’s flow. Even after a lifetime apart, true friends pick up where they left off—no bridges to cross, no apologies needed. As reflections of your soul, friends accept you without need or question.

Friends can love you as much as your enemies hate you. What fills the gap between these two polarities are distant admirers, detractors, attention-seekers, self-loathers, and those who are superficially polite. It’s true that close friends will lay down their lives for you. Are you willing to do the same for them?

Die for another? Most would not hesitate to give up their lives for a spouse or their children, for these relationships are deeply bonded. But to die for a friend? Can you truly say the love of a friend is as deep as your love of family? What of strangers? Would you willingly die for them? For some the answer is yes.

Outside your inner ring of family members—those closest to you karmically—and those you have a soul mate relationship with, true friends are aligned with you in spirit. When Murphy asked you if you had friends, he was making you the butt of his joke. Friends like these need more love than they are getting.

Everyone exists in your life for a cosmic purpose. This is important to realize for there are no accidents in the universe. Friendships develop over time. A bond is struck. If true to begin with, the friendship deepens even in stormy weather. Often friendships could be closer if the time were taken to nurture them more.

By evolving your soul’s consciousness, a deeper connection to others is forged. When the barriers to universal love are dissolved, you begin to see others as extensions of yourself and God. The oneness of life is evident the closer you are to freeing your soul of blinding karma. Everyone appears as God in disguise.