"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg, even though she knows that you are slightly cracked."
Listen to the Recording Here
I’ve Been Wondering . . .
The other morning I woke up to a text message from a dear friend — a spiritual sister — with a lovely song called All the Love in the World.
It stayed with me throughout the day and brought to mind the deep importance of friendship — the kind of soul friendship where you can show up exactly as you are and still be loved. The kind where you are accepted for all your imperfections and for all the ways you are still navigating the very human experience of life.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been reminded just how much I love and appreciate the friendships in my life.
They are the ones who send thoughtful messages, voice notes, and sometimes a simple song that arrives at exactly the right moment. They are the ones who make time for a walk, a meal, or a quiet and meaningful conversation. And there are those friendships where time may pass between visits, yet when you reconnect it feels as though no time has passed at all.
The gift of friendship can be the very medicine we need.
The Deep Importance of Friendship in Our Lives
To know that you are not alone in this world — that there is someone in the boat with you, someone who cares. Someone who is there when the waters are calm, and even more so when the waters become choppy. They don’t jump ship.
Friends cannot save us from our hardships or our pain, but they can companion us through them. They can sit beside us when the path ahead is unclear, when we cannot quite see the light yet.
In many ways, they are hope merchants.
They remind us of our strength, our capacity, and our innate goodness when we momentarily forget. They hold faith in us and in our process, even in the midst of the messiness of being human.
Perhaps this reflection is emerging because I turned fifty this year and have been reflecting on what life has taught me so far.
Why Soul Friendships Matter More as We Grow Older
Recently I made a list of the fifty most important things I have learned over the course of my life, and near the top of that list was the importance of friendship.
Making friends in my adult life was not always easy for me, and there were years when I experienced deep loneliness. Because of that, the friendships I have today feel especially meaningful and precious to me, even though a few of them live on opposite coasts.
So this reflection comes from a place of pausing and recognizing the abundance of amazing people in my life — people I love deeply and feel profoundly grateful for.
Friendship, in its quiet and steady way, has been one of life’s greatest blessings.
If you’d like to listen to All the Love in the World, you can click here — and perhaps share it with a friend who has accompanied you along the way.
