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I can definitely relate. I have all new friends from 10 years ago. There is one guy that I have known since the 4th grade that just got out of prison that I contacted a few days ago. We don’t have anything in common anymore either. We’ve both changed. He tried to put me down because I’m a more loving person today. I just let it go and I am moving on from him.
Neil,
It’s one of those things, I think. Most of us, going through high school think we’ll always be friends with our school chums, but unless we stay in the same town and keep doing more or less the same things, it isn’t likely to turn out that way. The fact that you’ve moved in a different direction faith-wise is just one more reason you no longer feel the same way about them. Unless they’re exposing you to temptations you find hard to resist, there’s no reason to stop associating with them because of your faith, but in the real world you were probably going to end up with different friends in any case. You get back together to take up where you left off, but you find you no longer have anything in common. It’s kind of a sad thing, a product of our society and the way we “do life,” I suppose. It happens when you move to a new town too, or often when you change jobs. If you feel Father wants you to, you can probably keep up some connection with them, but that will take special effort on your part, and of course it requires them to want to work at it too.
Blessings, Cindy
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The reason why I responded to him the way I did is because he hasn’t shown any change for the better. Understand, this is the guy I use to do drugs and get drunk with. Until there is a change for the better I will not hang out with him anymore.