I was hoping you'd mention Anne of Green Gables "kindred spirits"! :) I have always loved that term. It is so hard as a military wife to make good friends, and even harder to find fellow kindred spirits, in real life, which is why I value my online friendships so much. But I've also started praying that God will help me find a good group of friends in real life too! I'm starting to crave that. Cannot wait to meet up in person after we move to MD! (Need to text you and update about when we will be there!)
One of my best friends is from Dublin. We met at an Irish Music Festival at Snug Harbor, NY. It was instant fireworks. We got into so much trouble here in America and in Ireland--Dublin and Belfast--but more than anything we laughed for years on end. Then we both got married and moved away from each other, but those years! We were so alive together. I just finished reading Dostoevsky's Devils where a group of young men are drawn together by a "Big Idea." It's the opposite of friendship because for this idea they are willing to sacrifice each other-- not themselves. When we don't have good friends, we can easily get sucked into ideologies that are poor substitutes for love.
This is a breath of fresh air. Our society is losing anam cara, and I'm sure all the isolation built into technoculture presently, is the Enemy's tool against the grace of friendship. Let's shout it with our lives - that's what friends are for!
Someone left a very interesting reply clarifying the sources of the soul mates idea in the symposium - I meant to reply to it but accidentally deleted it! If you'd like to post again, please do!
I was hoping you'd mention Anne of Green Gables "kindred spirits"! :) I have always loved that term. It is so hard as a military wife to make good friends, and even harder to find fellow kindred spirits, in real life, which is why I value my online friendships so much. But I've also started praying that God will help me find a good group of friends in real life too! I'm starting to crave that. Cannot wait to meet up in person after we move to MD! (Need to text you and update about when we will be there!)
One of my best friends is from Dublin. We met at an Irish Music Festival at Snug Harbor, NY. It was instant fireworks. We got into so much trouble here in America and in Ireland--Dublin and Belfast--but more than anything we laughed for years on end. Then we both got married and moved away from each other, but those years! We were so alive together. I just finished reading Dostoevsky's Devils where a group of young men are drawn together by a "Big Idea." It's the opposite of friendship because for this idea they are willing to sacrifice each other-- not themselves. When we don't have good friends, we can easily get sucked into ideologies that are poor substitutes for love.
This is a breath of fresh air. Our society is losing anam cara, and I'm sure all the isolation built into technoculture presently, is the Enemy's tool against the grace of friendship. Let's shout it with our lives - that's what friends are for!
Someone left a very interesting reply clarifying the sources of the soul mates idea in the symposium - I meant to reply to it but accidentally deleted it! If you'd like to post again, please do!