{"id":1204,"date":"2019-11-06T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2019-10-22T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T15:14:15","slug":"thankful-for-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/06\/thankful-for-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"THANKFUL FOR SISTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>\u201cFor if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.\u201d&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ecclesiastes+4%3A10&amp;version=CSB\">Ecclesiastes 4:10 CSB<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is my sister-in-law Jill\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 I\u2019m thankful to Jill for teaching me what it is like to have a sister.\u00a0 My sister was so much older than me, we never lived in the same house together, she seemed more like an aunt.\u00a0 But Jill, seems like my sister, minus the \u201cin-law.\u201d  I was still in highschool when we met and she\u2019s been a part of the family ever since, it\u2019s hard not to call her sister.\u00a0 And Jill has always been there to pick me up when I\u2019ve needed her too.  She has always been able to see things in me I can\u2019t see in myself.  She helps me to see them too.  We\u2019ve had our good times, we\u2019ve had our bad times, but we\u2019ve always been family.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Solomon tells us in Ecclesiastes, \u201cTwo are better than one because they have good reward for their efforts.&nbsp; For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.&nbsp; Also, if two lie down together, they can keep warm; but how can one person alone keep warm?  And if someone overpowers one person, two can resist him.&nbsp; A cord of three strands is not easily broken.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ecclesiastes+4%3A9-12&amp;version=CSB\">Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 CSB<\/a>).&nbsp; We all need friends in our lives, people we can count on when we\u2019re in the valleys of life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently watched the Lord of the Rings with my husband.\u00a0 The friendship between Froto and Sam was the kind of friendship Solomon was talking about.\u00a0 There is this poignant moment near the end of the movie.  Froto can\u2019t go any further, he has no energy left.\u00a0 Sam, barely with any strength himself, picks him up and begins to carry him up the mountain.  When Froto tried to leave him behind, multiple times, Sam just ignored him and kept going.\u00a0 Sam knew the importance of the journey they were on, he knew the importance of reaching their destination.  He also knew the heavy burden Froto was carrying with him, Sam helped him carry the burden.\u00a0 I am blessed, because God has given me that type of friend in Jill.  I am blessed because my brother chose well, and gave me a sister.  I am blessed because I have a sister that helps carry my burdens.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I am thankful for sisters.&nbsp; What are you thankful for?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.\u201d&nbsp; Ecclesiastes 4:10 CSB Today is my sister-in-law Jill\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 I\u2019m thankful to Jill for teaching me what it is like to have a sister.\u00a0 My sister was so much older than me, we&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/06\/thankful-for-sisters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THANKFUL FOR SISTERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}