We had found our church; we had met Tom and Sarah and a slew of other friendly folks there.
But it took us a while to get from acquaintances to deeper friendships.
See, The Year of Small Things’s backbone was a relationship between our two families that went beyond a friendship based on mutual interests. After months of figuring out what to even name this relationship, we settled on “covenantal friendship.” Covenantal because we actually ratified a document between our families. The piece of paper bound us to uphold, support, and challenge each other. Covenantal is serious business.