'Home friendships
Home friendships
Friendships in each family require the most gentle care and cultivation.
We must win one another's love within our own doors, just as we win the love of those outside — by the sweet acts and virtues of affection.
We must prove ourselves worthy of being loved by those who are nearest to us; they will not truly love us, merely because we are of the same household — unless we love them.
We must show ourselves unselfish, thoughtful, gentle, and helpful.
Home friendships must be formed as all friendships are formed — by the patient knitting of soul to soul and the slow growing of one life into another life.
Then we retain other friends — by a thousand little winning expressions of love. We must be watchful of our acts and words — especially at home!
"Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing" 1 Peter 3:8-9