Friendship and judgment
When someone starts doubting your friendship, and calling your words of rebuke "judgment" I think it is high-time to evaluate what you think true friendship really is. A google-search brings up all the corny values of it; some of them are that they accept you for who you are, they don't judge you; they walk in when the rest walk out, etc. etc. I think that those things are true - in part, but that they paint a partial picture. The ultimate source of truth (for me anyway) states that "the wounds of a friend are faithful", and " As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend." (Proverbs 27) If true firendship means that I make you feel good about yourself and I make you feel valued, that i think you are wonderful and without fault and that you are right when all the others are wrong - then I think that we have missed the point. Yes - hopefully some of the time, that will be the case, but once our mutual love and resp