Messy Beautiful Friendship by Christine Hoover
Friendships can be long-lasting, fleeting, deep, peripheral, hard work, sanity-savers, painful, complex and essential, or all of the above. We may find it easy to make friends or become overwhelmed with navigating the unwritten rules of how to be the friend someone else would like us to be. How we perceive ourselves as a friend can leave us feeling insecure or totally dependent on the approval of others rather than God's grace. Messy Beautiful Friendship unpicks what friendships are all about and draws our eyes to the Bible's purpose for grace-filled, God-given friendship in all it's beauty - Lucy