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My friends and I don't agree on everything. And we don't pretend to agree just to get along. We're able to be friendly about our disagreements. BUT...I'm not going to spend a lot of time with people who make me feel bad, or insult me, or who "bring me down", or are otherwise a negative influence in my life.
Choose your friends carefully.
That said, if you have a friend that chooses some path or belief that causes them to be less than compatible or ideal, it would be wrong to desert them. A friend loveth at all times. Conversely, there are lines that can be crossed, and its up to the individual to decide what those lines are.
Choosing to abstain from close fellowship with someone doesn't mean you can't still love them and be kind to them.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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