MONDAY MEDITATION

The Gift of Friendship is Acceptance

Can you allow yourself to be a good friend?

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Spirit, help me to be the best friend to myself and to others.

I have personally found friendship to be tricky. Part of that has been due to a dysfunctional relationship with my mother, which causes me not to trust women. I’m getting better with that, though.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

— Joan Chittister

Now I recognize the gift of friendship, and those friends who accept me the way I am are true gifts in my life. And my eternal hope is that I accept my friends for who they are and cheer them on to be the best version of themselves.