When you're looking for a friend to "have your back"

Not to belabor the topic of Beth Moore's David Study, but she asked some poignant questions today regarding friendship....and I was just wondering where others might be on this subject. Gregg and I picked through these questions while on our romantic rendezvous this weekend, but it is always interesting to hear another perspective as well. Maybe these are thoughts you have never pondered before. Maybe this isn't a subject that stays on your cranial radar very often. Or maybe this might spark something within you, that you didn't realize you were desiring for yourself.

The questions in the study preceded scripture that highlighted the relationship between David and Jonathan. As I read through this set of scripture once again, I was amazed at the level of deep friendship between these two men, and wondered just how many women (who stereotypically seem to be more friendship-minded than men) could identify whole-heartedly with its characteristics.

While acknowledging David and Jonathan's relationship was very uncommon, Beth Moore shares 3 evidences of what made it that way:

1) Uncommon friends can speak their minds without fear.
2) Uncommon friends can share their hearts without shame.
3) Uncommon friends can stay close even at a distance.

In each criteria, in classic BM form, she discusses what made their friendship so uncommon. Wish I had room to share all that with you. It certainly would add more depth to the evidence. But her most thought provoking questions were as follows:

How far along are you in being able to embody these three great characteristics of friendship?

What do you think might be standing in your way of experiencing the full blessing of them? (This is my favorite question. This is the one I am most curious about.)

Wondering what you think.

A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12