"How I made Friends!" discussion with kids

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Video: https://youtu.be/CLGV_3dd_LA

When it comes to relationships, 1st God taught me, "Stronger yield to weaker," in his invisible kingdom on earth.
"Do you consider yourself stronger in God than the soul next to you?
If 'yes', yield to his or her weakness. Don't resist.
If 'no', listen & follow. Don't resist."
I followed. I saw rapport begin in the relationships.
Many said I have accepted them as they are and so I have become their friend.
I thanked God who taught me graciously.

God again taught me to speak truths in the next season of my relationship DISrespecting their weakness.
They didn't like. But they didn't part. They continued with me.
'you got a cutting tongue now-and-then. Show me your tongue,' they said with a smile & controlling their anger.
'Oh! Sorry for hurting you with my words!' I apologized during their cutting tongue moments observations.
They smiled. They accepted my apologies.
They saw it as my weakness. They accepted my weakness.
I saw an increase in the rapport,  openness, & transparency in the relationship.
Again, I thanked God who taught me graciously & who inspired my friends to forgive my cutting tongue moments.
They said I am one of their best friends.

I continued speaking truths whenever I observed. It hurted them. 'How the hell can you think or talk like that?' they rebuked. But kept me as their best friend.
'Oh! Sorry for hurting you with my words!' I again apologized during their cutting tongue moments observations.
'Oh! plz! Can you stop that! No use. You are like this,' they saw my cutting-tongue-moments as my weakness fully. They kept me as their best friend.
I again thanked God for teaching me graciously & preserving my friends.

Thus, I have many good, great, & best friends now.  My significant-half being the primary one who has endured me for more number of years than any other good, great, or best friends; I believe this as from the living God & his invisible kingdom on earth. Because if I dig deep into which came first: My friends' forgiving attitude & behaviour or My skill in maintaining friendships -- I end up just like the chicken-or-the egg story of which came first.

"But that is not the way you learned Christ!—assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another." Eph 4:20-25

Video: https://youtu.be/CLGV_3dd_LA

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