How to make meaningful connections with your friends
Channel: Nadia Bet-Seber House of Hope
Date: 2019-01-23

There are some visits that I like to call doggy bag visits, just like the song from MeatLoaf – can you give me something I can take home? I enjoy these kind of visits more than the People-Gossip-Magazine type of visits. You know those ones where you only end up discussing the latest of Greys Anatomy drama of keeping up with the Kardashians. I think that the order to love your neighbour is one of the best blessings that we have as believers, friends, co-believers, co-siters or co-Princesses all of us have solutions to the problems we are facing, may we learn how to capitalize on this blessing. 
  This is what I mean with doggy bag visits, where your friends give you something you can take home. I have been making these videos for the past two years, but I only made in my mother tongue – Afrikaans, where my one friend suggested that I start making videos in English too, initially I also enjoy this quote: 
Are you making excuses or waiting for someone to give you permission? 
This is the best example of a victim mentality, where we base our light and how bright we allow it to shine based on other people’s reaction on our actions. I made a video on this topic too, so based on my friend’s suggestion to start making the videos in English, I was as excited as a three year-old in a pink candy store about the new branch in my ministry. So this is my first prayer and wish for you – may you the recipient of your friends’ wisdom, where they see the areas you can grow and develop even more on. Secondly may God grant you the wisdom to make suggestions in your loved ones life, in order for them to sparkle even more. 
My second story of doggy bag visits was where I was repeating a life lesson, the life lesson was based on relationship advice that I needed, I asked for my friend who has already successfully overcome this issue in a relationship, she gave me very valuable advice, not only the arty-farty abstract type of advice, no she gave me a battle plan, with concrete steps on how to be victorious. We are more than conquerors through Christ, I belief it is with doggy bag visits that we are actually able to reach this level of blessings. My wish, prayer and blessing for you are – may you also be vulnerable enough to ask for advice, secondly when someone approaches you and you are the blessor where they need advice from you, may God grant you the wisdom in articulating the advice they need. 
Read to me a page from you soul each night – this is also one of my favourite quotes of all time. May we have the boldness to share our hearts with the ones we share our time with. I recently spend some time with a friend where he showed me his box of memorabilia’s, it was as if I was Alice in Wonderland peeking into his heart, seeing the things he values most in life. It was priceless, may we more have the courage, the bravura to show each other our hearts and the things we keep close. 
May all our visits be doggy bag visits, where the time invested into the other person really enriched our souls.