
- We see each other at church
- We chat at our kids' mutual recreational/extracurricular events
- We text each other
- We work together
- We run into each other once in a while at large group events
- We visit during playdates for our children
- Face-to-face conversations (regular, not intermittent)
- Intentional time scheduled together without distractions
- Exhorting each other in spiritual truth
- Having the relational space and security to be vulnerable and honest
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
Copyright 2019 Jessica Ptomey
About the Author

Jessica Ptomey
Jessica Ptomey is a Catholic convert, author, speaker, Communications scholar, home educator, and Director of Religious Education at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, MD. She blogs at JessicaPtomey.com. She is the author of Home in the Church: Living an Embodied Catholic Faith, and her research in inter-faith dialogue has been published in the Journal of Communication and Religion (JCR). She is also the co-host with her husband Mike of The Catholic Reading Challenge podcast.
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