{"id":501,"date":"2016-12-09T00:13:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T04:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=501"},"modified":"2016-12-09T00:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T04:13:26","slug":"141-a-network-of-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"141. A Network of Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That rare genetic eye disease I mentioned last time?  It took me awhile, but I asked some friends to pray for me when it dawned on me that since I live alone, if I don&#8217;t tell people, they won&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going through.  <\/p>\n<p>My pastor sent me an answer that was Spot On what I needed to hear.  Here&#8217;s part of it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1) You are not alone.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t simply mean that in the spiritual-platitude sense, although I do mean it like that as well.\u00a0 But along with the fact that Jesus really is with you in this, you have built a healthy connection network.\u00a0 There are many who would be willing to provide company and rides.\u00a0 Of course, people are so busy you&#8217;d have to schedule it and you&#8217;d have to distribute it amongst several people &#8211; but you have those people, Sondy.\u00a0 Count Diane and me among that number!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That was good to hear.  I know it&#8217;s true.  But it was nice to be reminded.  And nice to hear.<\/p>\n<p>I have an independent streak.  I like doing things for myself.  But there are times when it&#8217;s good to ask for help.  And I definitely have people who will come through for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That rare genetic eye disease I mentioned last time? It took me awhile, but I asked some friends to pray for me when it dawned on me that since I live alone, if I don&#8217;t tell people, they won&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going through. My pastor sent me an answer that was Spot On what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}