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What to Do When Friendships Need Repair
By Laura Bailey Bible Reading
"Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up." Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 "I just don't know if it is worth being her friend!" my daughter pronounced as she sat, arms crossed, lips pouting. I used to think that nothing could be worse than a baby who wouldn't sleep. Now, mothering a tween, I long for the days when a bottle and midnight rock would fix all her problems. We'd been navigating the deep waters of female adolescent friendships, where one day, the seas were friendly, and the next, the waves threatened to overtake you completely—this particular week had been unusually tumultuous, with gusts of teenage hormones shifting the winds of friendships this way and that. I couldn't remember who was mad at whom, which girls were enemies and which were foes, and who held the current best friend title. I was exhausted just listening to the daily playground drama; my daughter and the other girls had to experience some anxiety and stress over the situation. | 
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