Finding Friends

by Anna

I work at home so it's not always easy for me to have friends. I have also recently moved to another state. I have to make an effort to find groups to join and places to go where I can meet people.

A woman that I met in the last state I lived in and who I was friends with for seven years also moved to another state even farther away from me. We keep in touch by e-mail and she is always in my prayers. There are also two other friends that I don't see anymore because of the move. I need to work on the challenge of long distance friendships and to heal from past times when friendships ended due to distance or moving away from each other.

I also need to reach out and make new friends where I am living now.

The affirmation script below is something that I wrote to help me to be a good friend and have good friendships in my life. I believe that if I say that I will learn from God, then he will find a way to teach me.


“FRIENDS”

I learn what I need to learn about being a good friend and having good friends in my life. I learn from God and from those other sources that I can trust. I also remember what I’ve already learned when I need to.

I do my best to be my own best friend. I know that a strong and loving friendship with my self is very important.

I do my best to have good friends in my life. I go by my own feelings, intuitions and inner voice to know who to be friends with.

I can feel any anger, fear, and sadness that I have about anything that happened in my childhood and past that would cause me to have a hard time having good friends.

I know that it is important to be myself and to allow my friends to be themselves too. I do not expect my friends to be perfect.

I choose my friends wisely. If I meet someone that I want to be friends with, and they want to be friends with me, then I can share things about myself with them in a friendship way.

I know that it is important to have friends to talk to, share feelings with, and do things with, but I know that I also need some time alone with just myself, too. I have a good balance between being with other people and having some time alone.

I choose friends that I have some things in common with, but I also respect how my friends are different than me too. I can be myself when I am with my friends.

We all have basic needs such as a need for companionship, love, connecting to others, food, clothing, shelter, and many other basic needs and desires. However, people are also individuals too, and none of us are exactly the same. It is important to have my own sense of being an individual and it is also important for me to be connected to some others and have people in my life too. I find a balance between being my own self, connecting to others, and having some time alone.