“In
friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years'
difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain
houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident
of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any
of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there
are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has
been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me,
but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian
friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one
another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good
taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God
reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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