Proverbs 17:9-10

You know how I’ve talked about you magnify what you focus on? Well, it goes for friendship too. You can't be friends with someone if you hold their mistakes over their heads. You will not stay friends with someone if you won’t forgive them for something they did wrong.

On that same note, when a friend does something wrong, if you sit them down and talk to them about it, instead of letting anger build, you can save a friendship.

That happened to me once years ago. I was reacting at small group about stuff being said because I had said the same thing to my best friend. She thought I was reacting in a taunting way of “See, I told you the same thing!” But I wasn’t! She invited me over to her house, cooked us dinner, then said she had something to talk about. I had NO idea how angry she had been getting after small group. And she had no idea it was shock on my part. We cleared the air and moved forward. I stopped doing that at small group. Had she not brought it to my attention, and she kept getting angry, we wouldb’t still be friends right now.

Sometimes people honestlynaren’t doing things on purpose. Communication is the key to any and every relationship!