I realized last night that I have med school friends, undergraduate friends, friends from my old church, friends from my new church, neighborhood friends, family friends, and then even a few random friends from the internet.
I'm not sure that this is the way that human relationships were meant to form and flourish.
discuss?
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- Matthew
- family medicine resident, romantic (of the hopeless variety), writer (of blogs, songs, poems, and fiction), dreamer, musician, friend, future missionary, husband, and follower of Jesus.
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5 comments:
I wonder about this also. One thing I particularly don't like about it how my main network of friends (old friends) is pretty much disappearing. This is difficult and kinda miserable sometimes.
In terms of whether life is "supposed" to work this way, I'd have to conclude that while this is very different than things used to be, it's unavoidable in this part of the world, and as such is what we're supposed to deal with.
Yeah, I learned a lot about networks during my year of Insight in California--especially as it relates to how the Gospel spreads from people group to people group. Rodney Stark has a lot to say about the sociology of networks as it relates to the spread of the Church.
Tonight I realized something else that I had never quite put into words. One of the things I really look forward to about heaven is having all of the threads of my life woven back together. I have friends in so many places; many whom I rarely if ever see. It's only going to get worse over the next few years, as people keep making decisions which take them other places. I feel like my life is very fragmented. But in heaven, most of these people will be (re)united with me and with each other. It will be wonderful.
I have thought about the exact same thing, Peter, especially when leaving friends that I knew I would probably never see again. What joy to know that we will have eternity to enjoy each other's company!
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