Friendship

What makes a friend?

C.S. Lewis wrote, “friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly, to me, it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, ‘sacrifice everything to live where you can be near your friends.”

I’ve lost two long-time good friends in the past 3 years; John Glenn (not the astronaut/politician) and Charles Bridges. I tend to want to call my friends when I’m driving, and more than a few times, I’ve had the urge to call John and Charles. Conversations with each of these were different. As with friends who are now alive, there’s a different conversation with each and sometimes I call based upon my need.

Charles Williams was asked about his friendship with Tolkien – “At my first coming into this part of the world, I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming [in 1925] into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both.”

“J.R.R. Tolkien, on Charles Williams's death, commented, “I’ll miss Charles dearly,
and I’ll also miss who I was when with him.”

Friendship (click)