'The only friendship
The only friendship that can really meet all our soul's deep needs and craving
Even with sympathetic companionships all about us, there is an inner life which each one of us lives altogether alone. We must . . .
make our own choices and decisions,
meet our own questions and answer them ourselves,
fight our own battles,
endure our own sorrows,
carry our own burdens.
Friendship may be very close and tender — but there is a sanctuary of each life into which even the holiest friendship may not enter.
Blessed are they who in this aloneness can say, "Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me!"
God's is the only friendship that can really meet all our soul's deep needs and craving s.