Catalyst: Friendship

by Ari Esteban

Well, I'm gonna write about what I learned from our latest Catalyst session, but first let me share some photos during our Praise and Worship.

Yeah our speaker was Auntie April who is an oh-so-awesome-speaker.☺ The topic was about 'FRIENDSHIP'. She introduced acronyms, perhaps, to make it easier for us to remember the lessons. Here goes…

TRUE Friends:

Trust you

Reciprocate your kindness

Understand you

Empathize with you

She added that friends are like two bodies in one mind.☺

 Auntie April also introduced this "ABCDEF" thing.

Advisor - Friends give advice to one another. They help us solve conflicts.

Booster - Friends provide stability when the going gets tough. They ease our anxiety when we're stressed. Friends share the same situations like tell you what they did when faced with this and that.

Crossing (Kangaroo Crossing) - They're your companion.☺They're THE BEST companions. Friends remove the sense of loneliness. They form "cliques" or "groups".

Do it or Don't Like - You know it's wrong, so will you still do it?

Enter or Empathize - It's like, would you enter if you know it's dangerous? Or would you emphasize that it's not good?

Follow or Fail - Would you follow the bad stuff if other people are doing it or would rather fail to be, like, one of them? Hmm.

The D, E and Fs are all about what I think.☺ SO, that's what I got from her class and it was pretty fun.

Then we grouped ourselves (LG) and shared with one another what we learned that afternoon.

I wonder what's our next lesson would be...