{"id":26827,"date":"2020-11-16T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=26827"},"modified":"2020-11-16T05:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:35:54","slug":"friends-are-made-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=26827","title":{"rendered":"Friends are Made in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m pleased to share with you a post written by Dave Deuel of Joni &amp; Friends International Disability Center. It is an excerpt from his new mini-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shepherdpress.com\/products\/help-my-friend-has-a-disability\/\">Help! My Friend has a Disability<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 18:24 <\/p>\n<p>I can affirm this biblical truth, because I\u2019ve lived it. When I was two, my mother went to work outside the home. For childcare, she chose a trusted friend and neighbor who had several girls my age, one of whom had a disability. My mother was ahead of her time in wanting me to get to know someone with a disability during those formative years. She also worked in the field of special education.<\/p>\n<p>Jane had polio. At the start of every day her mom would help her to put on her metal braces as I watched. I went home one night and asked my mother when I could get my braces. Seizing the teaching moment, she explained to me about polio and other disabilities. I expressed that this was unfair. As parents recognize, one teaching moment often leads to another! So my mother told me about life as God\u2019s design, our need to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I\u2019m pleased to share with you a post written by Dave Deuel of Joni &#038; Friends International Disability Center. It is an excerpt from his new mini-book, Help! My Friend has a Disability. There is a friend who sticks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[951,945],"class_list":["post-26827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counseling-one-another-paul-tautges","tag-disability-special-needs","tag-friendship","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26830,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26827\/revisions\/26830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}