Valuing Relationships
Valuing Relationships reminds us that genuine love and friendship carry commitment and responsibilities. Relationships should not be one-sided. We must all do our part to keep them alive and beneficial for all.
Valuing Relationships reminds us that genuine love and friendship carry commitment and responsibilities. Relationships should not be one-sided. We must all do our part to keep them alive and beneficial for all.
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During his time on earth Jesus had many<br />
friends: disciples, 12 apostles, and an inner circle of<br />
three best friends: Peter, James, and John. Jesus<br />
shared some things with all of his followers and<br />
more personal things with the apostles - for<br />
example, the Last Supper. But he reserved his most<br />
intimate moments for his three closest friends like,<br />
his Transfiguration on the mountain, and his<br />
moments of Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane.<br />
Peter, James, and John knew Jesus best. They knew<br />
about his courage, as well as his fears, and they<br />
knew the price he was paying personally to do his<br />
Father's will. But even with the best relationships<br />
there can be disloyalty. Among his many friends,<br />
Jesus was betrayed by Judas’ kiss, denied thrice by<br />
Peter, and disbelieved by James. John was the only<br />
friend that valued his relationship with Jesus and<br />
stayed at the foot of his cross all the way to the<br />
end.<br />
Because of the relationship between Jesus and<br />
his beloved disciple John, while on the cross Jesus<br />
left his mother in the care of the one person he<br />
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