I wonder sometimes if our new generations have the same kind of friends that I had as I was growing up.  It sometimes seems as if our “do everything online via phone or tablet” generation is missing out on actually being with and talking to real friends.  I know many parents who are concerned about who their children want to befriend.  Based on what some “friends” post online about others (and even what some post about themselves), I’m not sure how many even understand what a friend is. There are “friends” who destroy each other, but a real friend sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24).  I think that the simplest instruction for being friendly is simply, Do to others as you would like them to do to you (Luke 6:31).  It’s hard to go wrong with that. 

How do we manage to mistreat the people in our lives?  Often it…