This is our final post in our series “Gifts of Friendship”! It’s been a joy to share gift ideas that can be freely given or given with little expense that share the love of Christ with our friends. We are so thankful to Karen Kingsbury and the inspiration we received from studying The Friends of Jesus together.
This weeks friendship gift given freely:
Time!
Yikes, right! Time?
It ticks away faster than we can blink. Everyone agrees. We want more time. We all seem to try and squeeze 28 hours worth of activity into a 24 hour day so how on earth can we suggest a gift of time? Especially when we all have Decemberitis! Yes, Decemberitis. It’s a disease that begins the day after Thanksgiving and lasts until about January 2nd. It seems to affect most of those I know.
Time. Jesus took time in his final days to spend with his closest friends. John 13:1:
Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this world and return to his Father. He had loved his disciples during his ministry on earth, and now he loved them to the very end. It was time for supper…
In His final days, the time drawing near to His death, Jesus chose to spend time with friends. Sharing a meal. Sharing love. Sharing important time and valuable teachings. He took time. He gave time.
We can’t slow the clock but we can chose how to spend our time. Rather than racing thru stores and scanning sales online let’s take the gift of time and present it to others.
Let’s dine together.
Let’s laugh together.
Let’s even cry together.
Who is that friend that needs your time? Make the call. Give the gift of time.
Time can not be bought but it is priceless when well spent with friends.
Our final giveaway!
Monday, December 14th we will give away these three wooden blocks with words of encouragement!
Enter to win: Leave a comment telling us your favorite way to spend time with friends!
(One winner will be selected by random drawing)
Blessings – Jodie and Donna
Last weeks winner of our Nativity Ornament is Jenny Hand!
I recently went out of my way to spend a day in Raleigh and attended a competition solely to support a couple of friends, I probably wouldn’t have done that if I hadn’t been reading the friendship book, time is oh so precious and not as easy to give as one would think. I love to spend my time with friends just hanging out, nothing special planned 🙂
You are so right Angel! This Christmas I want to give my friends the gift of time. You are I need a walk together 🙂
Add in some laughter and I’m there!
My favorite time with friends is talking and walking on the beach.
The beach is a great place for time with friends! Many memories!
Around the campfire
ohhh-la-la!
I love spending time with my friends just doing nothing but talking, laughing, and catching up with each other.
Had great time shopping and just hanging out yesterday with a friend from high school.
sounds so fun!
Ruth Anne says “going out to dinner”
Cora says, “having coffee and just talking” !
Sharing stories, nothing special, sitting outside around a firepit in the summer. Enjoying time spent together.
I enjoy taking long walks on the beach with my best friend who also happens to be my husband…it seems the best always comes out of the both of us during these walks…we love to collect sea glass but we always talk about the precious time we have together enjoying one of God’s greatest creation, the Ocean…watching the tides come in and go out, watching all the tiny pebbles wash ashore from who knows where, the smell of salt air, and looking as far as you can see to know the greatness of our Heavenly Father…
precious!
Having a girls day out. Of course talking over coffee is one of the best things to do.
mmmmm, gals and coffee talks!
Favorite way to spend time with friends is over coffee and sharing the love of Jesus…
I love spending time with friends at the beach!!
Another beach girl in the group!
My favorite way to spend time with friends is just doing nothing at all! We usually end up at my house watching a movie, but talking through the entire thing. It’s more about spending time together then anything else!
Hehe!!! I can just a group of girls chattering away while the movie plays!
Just blocking out some time to spend with anyone that I love is a rare treat these days. It generally involves getting together over a meal and talking. I have an older friend out of town who I call at least once a week and chatter away about nothing at all with; it does both him and I good! My life is so insane right now in this season that I have to really purposefully block out time to shut everything out but that/those person/people for that period of time. It is never enough though!
We do have to be purposeful to block time for other, for self and for Jesus!
ANY time spent with friends…favorite time with friends is face to face chats.. doesn’t matter what we are doing! I don’t get enough of this that’s for sure.
I love friends who track us down at big lots! Just to hug and talk! They are the best!
I love to spend time with friends in bible study and worshiping the lord.
We love that too!!!
I love spending time with friends over coffee! Its the best….time to relax and catch up!
It is the best time! Wasn’t always a coffee girl but I am now! But I’ll offer tea too! 🙂