Friendships can be hard; that’s just the simple point, they can be hard. We let each other down, we disappoint, we don’t come through, we don’t show up, we fail as friends, and some of our friends have failed us. And so, friendships in the real world will usually be a mixture of the good and the beautiful and the hard and the painful, but the resurrected Jesus, just by way of vision, models friendship that perseveres through the failure with grace and with the desire to reconcile.