#25

"You"
Dave and Sally were best friends. They grew up together and were next-door neighbors. Dave told Sally that he would take her out to eat on Friday night and 8:00 for her birthday. He showed up to her house at 7:55, only to find nobody home and her cell phone off. Dave waited until 9:00 for her to call or come home, but she never showed. On Monday morning at school, Dave saw Sally in the hall and just stared at her.

Sally said, "Hey, whats up? How was your weekend?" Dave didn't answer her, just gave her an angry look. "Is something wrong?" she asked. Dave replied, "Yeah, I hate you... that's what's wrong. How could you stand me up like that after I tried being nice and taking you out to eat for you birthday. You are a terrible person." Sally said, "Oh my Gosh! I'm so sorry! My grandma was in the hospital all weekend and I totally forgot about our plans. I'm so sorry." Dave then said, "Yeah, well you should have called and told me. Only a real jerk wouldn't call."




"I"
Sally says, "Hey, whats up? How was your weekend? Dave answers, "It was ok, other than not being able to hang out with you for your birthday. Did something happen?" Sally replied, "Yes and I am sorry I didn't call. My grandma was in the hospital and I stayed with her all weekend. I'm sorry I never called. I understand why you are mad." Dave said, "Don't worry about it. These things happen. I'm sorry about your grandma, but next time will you please call and tell me where you are so that I know nothing bad happened to you?" "Deal," she said.

#24

One of my friendships ended in 5th grade when my best friend moved away. It was hard to talk or see him because we had school and were very involved in sports and activities, plus we didn't have cell phones to text or call each other whenever we wanted. We didn't formally end the relationship because we figured we would still see each other all the time, even though we don't. We are still friends but aren't as close as we used to. I wish we could still see each other a lot, but it's extremely hard nowadays. I never want to actually end it, even though we don't hang out. I hope that we can always be friends even if we don't see each other or talk as much as we would like.

#23

1. Work- My co-worker, Fernando: do same task at work- collaborators; We are close because we have been working together for 5 years and know how each other feel even when we don't say it.
2. Emotional- My brother, friends Chris and Anthony: deep connection- closest people besides parents; These people mean the world to me. They are always there for me and I can tell anything to them.
3. Intellectual- Friend Danek: share same ideas, close friends; Danek is one of my closest friends from school, and will be a life-long friend.
4. Crisis- Friend Mike- close friends; I have grown up with Mike and been through more with him than any other person, besides my family.
5. Common-cause- Friends Enrique and Saul: close friends; These people always make me laugh and make any situation fun.
6. Spiritual- Mother and Father: close friends; I love my parents more than anything in the world. They provide me with everything I need plus more.
7. Aesthetic- My brother: close friend- closest person to me; My brother is my closest friend and greatest person I know.
8. Recreational- Enrique, Edwin, Malcolm, Saul, my brother: close friends/buddies; These are the funniest people I know and can always make me laugh, even when I'm angry.
9. Creative- Friends Anthony and Chris, my brother: close friends; These people mean the world to me. They are always there for me and I can tell anything to them.

#22

1. Yes, Jesus did have friends. Two examples were Martha and Mary- two sisters, and their brother, Lazarus, who some call Jesus's greatest friends.

2. Friendship is characterized by someone that you can be real with and someone that you have and has mutual caring for. It is different from nurturing and parental love because parental and nurturing love is on a higher level; it is a closer relationship that is distilled inside of one since they are brought into this world.

3. An I-Thou relationship is when one treats another as a subject with an inner life. This friendship is what intimacy is all about. It gives us a glimpse of how we experience with others the ultimate way of relating to God, the eternal "Thou." It shows us what grace-filled moments are all about. It means that our friendships can be sacred experiences, opportunities for grace.

#21

5. My close friends have brought out the best in me when they help me to become the best person that I can. They do this by being truthful to me, practicing with me, helping me become better at sports and teaching me things that I don't already know.

6. One time when a friend saved me from myself by being loyal and honest was when one of my friends told me that my hair made me look a lot younger than I already look, so I stopped doing my hair like that. It made me realize that I looked kind of stupid and like a 9 year-old.

7. My relationship with my friend Anthony is mutual and equal, and more than any friend that I have. We always pay for each other when the other forgets money or needs to borrow money, and we always switch who drives for the night or the weekend. Everything we do is fair and equal and that's the way it will always be.

8. Three things that make me hard to accept are that I am always correcting people when they say or spell stuff wrong, I am always busy so it would be hard to be available at all time, and I have a tendency to act like I'm better than my friends. I find that my friends make fun of other people too much, talk behind people's backs, and never respect people that deserve their respect, but I still accept them because they are my friends.

9. I have been generous to them when I have picked them up when they needed rides, loaned them money when they were in need, helped them out with their homework when they didn't understand it, and fixed their computers when they wouldn't work. They have been generous to me by helping me when I have problems with my girlfriends, giving me surprises, always including me in their activities, and being honest with me when they knew I could take it.

#20

Carolyn exhibits knowledge of the other person, practical knowledge, conflict resolution, patience, humility, and hope. She has hope that she can make Dave's life better. She has humility in the case that she doesn't flaunt that she is helping an AIDS patient; she isn't acting like she's better than everyone else. She has patience with Dave when he doesn't seem like he is at first getting better. She exhibits conflict resolution by trying to help Dave get better and respect that he is still human, even though he has AIDS. She exhibits practical knowledge by using common sense when she cooked him food that she knew he wouldn't get sick and throw up from. She exhibits knowledge of the other person by trying to understand what he is really going through and all the pain that he is feeling.

I would like to exhibit honesty, trust, and patience. I would like to be honest because I believe that it is the most important value of life, and I know that I lie more than I should. I would like to trust other people because trust is also important; it allows you to have relations with other people. I want to learn how to exhibit patience because I am very anxious and I need to learn how to calm down and wait for life to take its course.

#19

1. No it is not just a feeling that comes to us or something that happens. We must decide to love; we must choose it as the focus of our life. It is the essential choice in a Christian's life.

2. Jesus says that the greatest commandments are "loving the Lord your God with all your heart, and will all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength. the second is loving your neighbor as yourself."

3. Love means to seek and then foster the good of others in the context of their concrete situations.

4. To seek and foster means to be active in love because love demands activity. It involves finding out what your partner needs and then doing something to fulfill it. The good of others is the same good we would want for ourselves. An example is after receiving a compliment, giving one to someone else. "If you receive than you shall give." In the concrete situation is respectiving a person as he or she is- not as we might wish them to be. Love must take the uniqueness of the other into account. This may require that we take painful or difficult steps for the good of another person.

5. I agree with this definition of love because it covers all aspects of love. It covers love for friendships, animals, and especially your loving partner. This love definition makes perfect sense.