The Friends We Keep
Sarah Zacharias Davis
Waterbrook, 2009, 210 pp., $12.99
waterbrookpress.com
In the era of BFFs and BFNs (Best Friends Forever/Best Friends for Now), Sarah Zacharias Davis, VP for Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, pegs the deep desire most young women long for in authentic friendship in her book The Friends We Keep.
Designed in a discussion group format, senior-high women will explore questions of jealousy, betrayal and loyalty within friendships. Having already recommended this book to a pastor of women’s ministries, I know young women will relate to the soul-bonding struggles narrated from the author’s own experiences.
Although this book is not a how-to book about friendship, readers will be able to identify the dynamics within their own group of friends that might be sabotaging or passively destroying the relationships they desire to cultivate. Her strategic advice for friendship is “simply to accept what people are able to give.”
