episode #32 // Sacred Rhythms: Cultivating Friendship with Bailey T. Hurley
Friendship as an adult can feel complicated at best. You wonder if everyone else feels lonely and left out or if it’s just you? Are you doing something wrong? Does everyone else have a best friend? If you’ve struggled with friendships and community, this episode is for you. Bailey Hurley and I chat about where we get it wrong, how to get it right, and why we need each other.
Bailey Hurley and I chat about where we get it wrong, how to get it right, and why we need each other. Bailey is passionate about friendship and helping others learn how to widen their circle and find community right where they are. You’re going to love her and I know you’ll be encouraged. Listen in, and let me know how this episode helped you!
Bailey lives in Denver with her husband, Tim, and her three children. As a family, they share a passion for welcoming people into the folds of godly community—especially their son Hunter who likes to have “all the peoples” over all the time.
Bailey earned her M.A. in Leadership from Denver Seminary and uses her education to build a meaningful home and ministry that impacts how she daily leads within her community.
MEMORABLE QUOTES
Adults who are just figuring out who they are are going to get stuck in friendship…when they are being very consumeristic [and] it needs to be very convenient for them instead of thinking “What do I bring to others?”
I think that’s what we all think of each other. She’s probably fine, so she probably doesn’t need me to invite her.
Women who are coming out of college try to pursue and maintain friendships the way that they did in college.
Women feel like friendship is very stagnant, and it has to be the same for the rest of [their] life.
Just like [your] schedule changes every semester or every six months, you’ve got to change your friendship rhythms too.
You’re receiving the same benefit when you do initiate.
Find your strength and security in Christ, in knowing that He reached out to you first. He’s the one that had to pursue you and come find you and invite you. He’s the one who can give you the energy and the compassion…to do this for other people.