{"id":2976,"date":"2019-06-22T13:41:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T21:41:59","slug":"friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/22\/friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The day after I <a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/18\/staff-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">wrote<\/a> about wanting accountability partners, a friend asked me to get lunch. We used to meet up weekly to pray, after we drop off our kids. That was many years ago. I am thinking, is God bringing me an accountability partner? She meets my qualifications of being geographically near, and biblically focused. I am excited about this possibility. I don&#8217;t consider her a mentor but definitely a candidate as a prayer partner.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, my senior pastor is my mentor, though my ideal would be a woman. I do ask my SP questions about issues I face in life. I respect his wisdom. He has a lot of life experience even though he is not much older than me. He&#8217;s gone through hard times.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting that as I think of a mentor, I want someone who has struggled. I am looking for the same in my accountability partner. If life&#8217;s been too easy for you, you can&#8217;t empathize with me,\u00a0 nor do you have wisdom that borns out of trials.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly what 2Cor 1:3-5 means. The reason we go through trials and receive God&#8217;s comfort is so we can comfort others. I&#8217;ve lived this many times. I wouldn&#8217;t be who I am today, in a positive way, without the experience of losing a child. I am much more empathetic.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up as a minority has also defined who I am, but I am still working on making it to be a more positive impact on my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day after I wrote about wanting accountability partners, a friend asked me to get lunch. We used to meet up weekly to pray, after we drop off our kids. That was many years ago. I am thinking, is God bringing me an accountability partner? She meets my qualifications of being geographically near, and biblically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}