The Friendship Devotional 40 Days to Move Past Loneliness and Find Your Community

By: Bailey T. Hurley

Published by Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, 2026-06-09

An inspiring forty-day devotional with encouraging prayers and practical friend tips for women struggling with loneliness or looking to make and maintain deep friendships.

Making and keeping good friends can be thorny—especially as adults. Though we’re more connected than ever, many of us still feel lonely, long for deeper relationships, and wonder if genuine friendships are even possible.

The Friendship Devotional is designed to help you navigate these relationships and show you how to make them flourish through four distinct stages of growth—Planting, Tending, Pruning, and Blooming. With each scripture, daily devotion, reflection question, and unique prayer, you will see how cultivating solid and intentional friendships is a skill that can be practiced and honed. You’ll also discover practical “friendspiration” tips and fun friend date ideas to help you take that next step in deepening your friendships, including

• making new friends
• choosing conversation starters that work
• handling conflicts
• recognizing the qualities of a good friend
• celebrating friendiversaries

As you cultivate your friendships, may you blossom and thrive through the people God places in your life.