Bad days aren’t just things of the past. They’re always just in front
of us, too. 2 Timothy warns that we shouldn’t be naive and that
difficult times are ahead of us. We will continue to be thrown curveballs.
It might be with our careers, or our families, or our communities.
Things will change, and they will be hard to face. Long days
are ahead.
But they are days that we will share. God does not want us to face
the world alone. We can’t do it. We’re not able to overcome trials
and pain and heartbreak and hurt and the whole mess of things by
ourselves. Deep down, God planted that feeling to find friendship
within us. It’s an integral part of our humanness to not just want,
but to need a shoulder to cry on after a long, long day. In Genesis,
God first made Adam alone. And yet, God knew that Adam, who
kept to himself every day for twenty four hours, lacked something so
key in his life. He saw something that was not good. And so, He
made a companion. It is clear, then, that to enter into and delight in
friendship is to reflect how God made us.
Joseph Delamerced is a sophomore at Brown
studying Health and Education.
Mornings, Ashley Yae '23
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