Hard truth and ridiculous grace to be fully known and loved by you! This verse to a Tauren Wells song called Known. We listened to the song durning worship and that verse has been stuck in my head for a day and a half! When I heard the verse I immediately thought of my friendship with my now team lead and former teammate Brook. These are the KEYS to any relationship, but they were THE keys to us forming the friendship that we now have.
Since forming our friendship it’s really made me reevaluate the friendship i have at home. Brook and I definitely don’t have an easy friendship in-fact it’s hard like REALLY hard. We are TOTAL opposite in almost every single way!! We have to choose into it everyday, we had to sit down and have the hard conversation that sometimes held hard truths and we had to have a RIDICULOUS amount of grace for one another! When choosing friends we often choose the people that are easy for us to get along with, the ones we vibe well with that don’t really rock our boat to much. Those friendship are easy, they require little to no work at all. (Don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with those they just aren’t what I am focusing on.)
When I think of my friendships back at home and hard truths I always thought, telling them the truth when it came to my opinions and telling them when they were getting out of wack. But being on the race brought a whole new aspect to this, hard truths are when your willing to be totally and completely vulnerable with someone. Being able to tell them the hard things that your struggling with, telling them when you have feelings that may make you look a certain way that you don’t think is favorable in your eyes. (btw all feelings are valid we need to stop telling people they can’t feel a certain way!) It’s just being willing to be open with someone and say the things we most of the time wouldn’t. With saying the hard things comes grace! *sigh* grace the one thing every single person deserves. In forming a deep friendship ridiculous amount if grace is needed. Man I can’t tell you how many times I would say something that would hurt Brooks feelings or she would do something that hurt mine. And being able to come to the table and talk honestly about it and seeing where the other one was coming from and not letting it effect how we saw the other person. It’s extending grace when you want to go off on someone. It’s knowing the persons heart and trusting God is working and moving and giving grace even when you would rather give a punch in the face. It’s knowing your not perfect either so why expect perfection from someone else.
Brook and I have a special friendship one that I cherish very greatly, our friendship is unlike any friendship i have ever had. Hard truth and ridiculous grace is what I believe got us to where we are. It’s one step closer to us being fully known to one another, and man what a sweet thought that is to have someone in the world (other than a spouse) that will fully know me. That there isn’t a thing in this world I couldn’t talk to her about and I’m not afraid to go to her and tell her how I’m really feeling. We are gonna disagree we may even fight but at the end of the day we can come back and talk about it we can move forward and learn just a little more about each other.
