Your path to friendship really begins with an absolute trust that God both knows what is best for you and is also working to bring the best into your life. If you do not hold that conviction firmly within your mind, you will forever question every opportunity you are given. You will take your walk down the path of cynicism and away from friendship.

When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgment.

Trust will always be one of the greatest, rarest, and happiest blessings of our life in community, though it can emerge only on the dark background of a necessary mistrust.