Praying for your friend doesn't excuse you from calling them

You can spiritualize a friendship so much that you talk a lot about God and little about life. And you can do the opposite: stay at the human level without letting Christ broaden that friendship. Faith brings the two together. It moves you to pray for your friend and to send them the message; to wish that they become a saint and to take an interest in their work, their tiredness and their small joys. What is eternal passes through the usual gestures. Praying for someone can give you light to ask their forgiveness, accompany them better or respect their pace. But it doesn't excuse you from being there. Christian friendship doesn't float above what is human: it looks after it and makes it greater.