Friendship with God

"I will not now call you servants: for the servant knoweth not what his lord doth. But I have called you friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you." Gospel According to St. John, Douai-Rheims
The deepest and truest secrets of our hearts we reveal only to those who are nearest to us, those whom we love with the deepest love. We may tell one person one thing, and another person another thing, but it is only with our genuine friends that we tell the entire truth of who we are, that we reveal our innermost being. Friendship is an exchange of persons. Christ, who in the eternal exchange of Himself with the Father is united so intimately with Him as to be One Being, calls us to this same exchange of self with Him. He gives Himself to us in His High Priestly Sacrifice, and calls forth from us the same gift, that is, the total gift of self, to Him. The intimate exchange of being between Christ and us produces a new union-Christ the Head, we the Body; Christ the Bridegroom, we the Bride. Our Life flows forth from this union as we give ourselves to Him and receive from Him His own Life in the Spirit. To bring always to our conscious minds the truth of this union and to live it out in the reality of our daily lives is the work of faith.