Friendship & Honesty

yesterday a close friend challenged me to be more honest with him.

i'm still processing, but the gunky story is that i am having trouble knowing how to do that. in my marraige, i have worked long and hard to be able to be honest and open with my wife.

but i've never really learned how to have conflict with friends. in fact i think i have defined "friend" as "someone who never causes me to experience conflict"

more and more i am seeing the truth of a line from Godric:

"What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?"

i googled that phrase and came up with this article on the very same subject.

a friend, in the comments, suggested this song by Mark Heard, and I had to add it to the post.