A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

~ Proverbs 17:17

I figure that after the provision of spiritual parenting, 2025's most influential spaces will be covenantal relationships. A covenantal relationship is a walk with someone under an agreed (or preferred) code of conduct, a shared intimate space and a unified belief system. Centrally, covenantal relationships involve life long commitment to each other under a patronage of shared values. Now that to love and be loved is life's oldest spice, do not allow the coming year to serve you a flat portion. Love deeply and avail your heart broadly and may the LORD give you rich, authentic and dependable relationships.

From our text, love begets friendship and WHEN TIME HAS TRIED IT it begets a brother or a sister, (the covenantal stage). This is where a father's counsel comes in because a brother is born! Now with the birth of a brother or sister comes birthings. This may imply that covenants are unleashed so that spiritual spaces can be enriched through the manifestation of grace offspring. Check how you laugh, it's someone you love that laughs like that. Hopefully, they also pray like you do! Apparently, we can't be intimate and fail to share a soulical expression. Son, do not keep a friendship that is not keeping wisdom because it will make your heart susceptible to folly.