The New Testament is full of exhortations to dwell together.

In the build up to having a baby I had a few nights out – leaving my wife to cope! It was a little hard on her, but she was on board and saw how important the 2 events were for me.

The first was a Christian Resources Together Retreat for bookshop retailers.

While there I was able to learn a lot more about the industry I’m in, meet some new suppliers but best of all connect with some other bookshop retailers.

The weekend after was our Churches Men’s advance which was far too short but still quality time of friendship making/strengthening with the guys in my Church.

For me these two events brought a lot of needed fresh connection. I am not divoid of it on a regular basis. I have a close family, strong church friendships, weekly mentoring group which I attend. But in this busy world we live in when your balancing many responsibilities it’s very easy to not have real active regular friendships.

I’m guilty of thinking I don’t need friends enough and I know that most guys are the same. I watched my Dad when I was growing up it seemed to me he had real close friends, an abundance of people that he was working with building things with, and to a large extent they are friendships, but they looked nothing like the connections I had with my school friends.

I think in truth I can only have the time for 1 real deep intimate friendship and that is my wife and thankfully so did and still does my Dad.

But the week did teach me that relationships, people and the Sparks of connection that come are what life is all about and what helps us navigate the journey, but it’s not easy to make time for.

Challenge:

So make time for it we must!!

How can you factor it in to your life??

Do you agree friendships are hard to factor in?

How do you make it happen??