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======Friendship V - Open Space.======
Friday, June 26, 2009.
Today I would like to talk about the color green and what it can
mean for friendship. This is part of our little idea to look at the
levels of friendship or the "spectral colors" of friendship. I use
these colors as an image. I do not think that color symbolism has
any deep meaning in addition to the fact that humans see colors
and use colors to express their feelings. However, colors can be
part of powerfull images.
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Green is the color of life, the color of hope, the color of
nature. Green is the color which has a future. For me green is
also the color of space, of open space. It is the color of
freedom, the color of options which can be explored. With all these
points green is an important color for friendship.
Friendship needs open space. Friendship needs freedom. When you
want to build up a true friendship, this does not go together with
control or manipulation. Friendship needs to take the other person
serious with its past and with its future. When we take a person
serious we need to accept its freedom. In fact we need to
support and give freedom to our friend. It is not only an acceptance,
but it is an integral and active part of the relationship. We
want freedom for our friends to develop, to prosper, to evolve
their ideas, their preferences, their talents and gifts.
Freedom does not mean that we would have to give up our own
preferences. We should have our own ideas about how things should
work, that is perfectly ok, that is even necessary. Our own
self-confidence is reflected into the self-confidence of our
friends. The weaker we are the weaker will our friendship be.
We want strong and well-developed partners as friends. We want
to be reliable and strong friends to them.
It is highly interesting to think about this freedom in our friendship
with God and with Jesus. God is a very strong friend, who has quite
detailed ideas about life. God is a holy character, full of purity
and dedication. He somehow makes a perfect friend. And he wants to
generate freedom for us. The freedom we are talking about here is not
the freedom to do evil, to hurt other people or to cause damage.
It is the freedom to make important choices. It is the freedom to
prosper. It is the freedom to learn all the important things of
life. God is creating a wide and open space for us. He is tearing
down the walls of our mind, the walls of our heart and the walls
which surround our life in terms of options and possibilities.
[R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]
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