Kristin Demery - The One Year Daily Acts of Friendship: 365 Days to Finding, Keeping, and Loving Your Friends

Friendship is a gift, but the struggle to find good friends is real. Ive always said that the best way to find a friend is to be the friend you needfor someone else. The One Year Daily Acts of Friendship provides practical assistance in living out what we all long for. With reflections and tools to help you build meaningful and God-honoring friendships, this devotional will equip and inspire you to take that brave step toward lasting relationships today!

RUTH SCHWENK , founder of TheBetterMom.com, cohost of the Rootlike Faith podcast, and coauthor of the CBA Devotional of the Year, Settle My Soul

The One Year Daily Acts of Friendship is a perfect combination of heartfelt stories, biblical truth, and practical application. Julie, Kendra, and Kristin prove (once again) to be both witty and wise by giving us a devotional that helps to cultivate authentic friendships, one step at a time. Ive already seen huge growth in my neighborhood relationships after just one week of implementing their ideas. I love it!

AMINTA GEISLER , host of the Mint podcast and director of Reckless Abandon Ministries

Navigating friendships as an adult can be more challenging than expected. Its necessary to dedicate time and effort to grow relationships, but most of us dont have the time and effort to put into our friendships. This year of encouragement will push you to dive deeper into friendshipscultivating old and pursuing new. Youll feel seen and heard as Julie, Kendra, and Kristin pull up a chair at the table with you to show you the way to healthy and lasting friendships.

KARA-KAE JAMES , author of Mom Up and host of Asking for a Friend podcast

I recommend this book to anyone who has struggled to cultivate enduring friendships in the past. In these pages, you will be challenged, comforted, entertained, and equipped to be a good friend. With daily Scriptures to bolster your faith and everyday actions to strengthen your relationships, you will discover that true friendship isnt as elusive as you once thought.

SARAH KOONTZ , founder and Bible study author, Living by Design Ministries, LivingbyDesign.org

In this book filled with personal stories, Julie, Kendra, and Kristin demonstrate the power of friendship and the blessing of walking through life with those around us. Written with realness and vulnerability, The One Year Daily Acts of Friendship speaks to the ups and downs in relationships, the power of forgiveness, and generosity. I felt as though I was welcomed inside their friendship circle and suddenly had three sisters encouraging my heart as I turned each page. Regardless of your current friendship status, these daily reads will inspire you to grow your friendships and provide actionable challenges to find the friendships you long for.

What an honor to read these pages and understand the authors passion for community, friendship, and sisterhood. I found myself saying Ill just read one more page, and then Ill do the laundry. Lets just say the mountain of clothes still hasnt been touched, because I want to glean from the authors wisdom. Their words have helped heal some friendship hurts in my life by providing new perspectives and possibilities to explore. I love when I find others with whom I can relate, and Im thankful these three were willing to expose their hearts on these pages.

LINDSAY MAY , publisher of Truly magazine and founder of The Truly Co

An invitation to spend a year cultivating a variety of diverse and meaningful friendships? Yes, please! The One Year Daily Acts of Friendship devotional is a beautiful and timely reminder that friendship is all around usif well only look for it, invite it, and embrace it.

RACHEL DODGE , author of Praying with Jane: 31 Days Through the Prayers of Jane Austen and The Anne of Green Gables Devotional: A Chapter-by-Chapter Companion for Kindred Spirits

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The One Year Daily Acts of Friendship: 365 Days to Finding, Keeping, and Loving Your Friends

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More than a dozen years ago, the three of us (Julie, Kristin, and Kendra) were among a group of women seated around a kitchen table. We were there at the invitation of Katrina, Kendra and Kristins older sister and friend, but on that day many of the womenincluding Juliewere acquaintances only. Katrina had recently admitted to Kendra that despite being surrounded all the time by people in her church, neighborhood, and community, she was lonely. And with that in mind, she had invited these women into a Bible study in her home, determined to turn women who were mere acquaintances into friends.

Because of Katrinas invitation, those of us who pulled up chairs to her whitewashed table and gripped mugs of coffee in our hands have gone on to live our lives intertwinedlaughing and crying, arguing and forgiving, mourning and rejoicing over marriages, degrees, careers, cancer, deaths, adoptions, births, and everything in between. We have stood prayerfully in the gap for one another, held one another accountable, celebrated wildly over successes, sobbed over heartaches, assumed the best of one another, and laughed until our sides hurt. Doing life together has been a blessing those twentysomething girls could not have fathomed all those years ago, and as time has passed, weve learned how precious and critical it is to experience healthy friendships with others.