Your essay is a very important one, especially for Christians in witnessing and in their more regualr relationships and in knowing how to become friends.

One small point of critique, which doesn't negate the scope of your essay whatsoever: My opinion is that when God knits someone together in the womb, it is specific for only one person and not pertaining to everybody. It is unque and purposely specific as Jeremiah's or David's or Jesus'. Most of us are made in the way God established when He created everything and everyone, saying be fruitful and multiply and replenich the Earth - a natural, biological phenomenon and in the end painful natal experience. and then having to deal with the teenage years...