Never Unfriended: The Secret to Finding & Keeping Lasting Friendships

“No one can make us quite as unsure about ourselves as another woman.” In embracing the digital revolution, we have become a lonely population. “‘The more friends the better’ is the Facebook definition of friendship.” IRL it’s the depth of the relationship that defines a true friend. “Friendship lives beyond the margins of Facebook…Friendship cups real hands around paper cups of coffee…The world can have your avatars.” Friendship takes place “in the space between photos.” “So what can you do to find safe, loving, engaged friends whom you can trust never to unfriend you? Become radically invested in the people around you…It’s not the secret to finding friends who will never unfriend you…it’s the key to becoming the kind of woman who would never unfriend her friends…The cardinal rule of friendship: you have to be willing to go first…This is the secret to finding and keeping lasting friendships: become women who want to see the women around them flourish.” “If ever there was a handbook on how to negotiate hard relationships and create fresh starts it’s the Bible. ‘The chief theme of the entire Bible is reconciliation of unsafe relationships.’” First, between us and God. Second, between us and others. Third, between us and ourselves. Lisa-Jo Baker’s Never Unfriended is “for the sisterhood, the motherhood, the neighborhood, the misunderstood.” The purpose of this book is to serve as your Sherpa on the journey from shallow to Shalom. “The shortest distance between strangers and friends is a shared story about our broken places.” People are “the glue for all our broken pieces.” God meets us “in the rips and tears and holds us together.” We start to put “our hope and our faith back together like an unexpected stained glass window that was much more beautiful because of all the broken bits and pieces.” “There’s a God more passionate about you than the ending of any Jane Austen novel…Dear God, please help me not to miss the beauty of the seat right next to me.”