{"id":309,"date":"2007-10-17T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=309"},"modified":"2007-10-17T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2007-10-17T13:11:22","slug":"the-importance-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!<\/em> (Job 19:21, ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you are up to your nose in emotional pain, the only thing that might keep you sane is the support of your friends. And this is a gift from God.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend I was recovering from some painful days, but God allowed me to meet with Mrs. B., a longtime friend from mine. She listened carefully to me, and offered me comfort and joy. To top it off, herhusband challenged me to a Halo deathmach :). I wasn&#8217;t in the best of shapes, but I laughed and forgot about my personal issues for a little while. A true display of God&#8217;s grace.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, O Lord, for our friends, for they are a mirror of Your kindness and mercy to us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.&#8221; (Proverbs 27:9, ESV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me! (Job 19:21, ESV) When you are up to your nose in emotional pain, the only thing that might keep you sane is the support of your friends. And this is a gift from God. This&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,33,34],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-friends","tag-friendship","tag-mercy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}