Mending Lives: The Healing Balm of Friendship
Publication Date
7-26-2003
Publication
The Christian Century
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Toward the end of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a powerful novel about slavery and its aftermath, one of the characters reflects on the impact one woman had on his life: “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
We all long to have “a friend of my mind.” Such friends are agents of healing and wholeness, people who mend our lives by gathering the tattered pieces of our selves and quilting them into a redemptive fabric. Such friends are a holy gift.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Gregory, "Mending Lives: The Healing Balm of Friendship" (2003). Public Intellectual Writing. 142.
https://repository.belmont.edu/gregoryjones_public/142
