This Week

This week at praxis...Welcome to Camp praxis

Friendship:  Is derived from an Old English term meaning to love,
and ...is akin in its roots to an Old English word meaning free.  
Radical friendships mean loving our own freedom, 
loving/encouraging the freedom of the other, the friend, 
and therefore loving freely.
-Mary Daly


A friend loves at all times.
-Proverbs 17:17


Some friends play at friendship, 
but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin.
-Proverbs 18:24

At once Judas came up to Jesus and said, 
"Greetings, Rabbi!" and kissed him.  
Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you are here to do." 
Then they came and laid hands on Jesus and arrested him.
-Matthew 26:49-50

Winter, spring, summer or fall/All you have to do is call
And I'll be there (Yes, I will)/You've got a friend.
-Carole King

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
Mmm I get high with a little help from my friends
-Lennon and McCarthy

Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. 
It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

Friendship is an art, and very few 
persons are born with a natural gift for it.
-Kathleen Norris
 


There is no friend like the one who has known you since you were five.
- Anne Stevenson



Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.
- Edna Buchanan



She is a friend of my mind.  She gather me, man.  
The pieces I am, she gather them, 
and give them back to me in all the right order.
- Toni Morrison



Friends make good furniture and easy windows.
- Nancy Spain


Each friend is indeed a world-a special 
sphere of certain emotions, experiences, 
memories, and qualities of personality...
We are all mad eup of many worlds and each 
friendship brings one or more of those worlds to life.
-Thomas Moore
 


Questions:


	Think about your friends and friendships.  
	How do the words above relate to your life?  
	What do you gain or learn spiritually from friendship?