{"id":720,"date":"2012-10-01T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicebyrd.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2012-10-15T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T03:12:08","slug":"book-11-indispensable-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-11-indispensable-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: 11 Indispensable Relationships You Can\u2019t Be Without by Leonard Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cYou need others to get where you\u2019re going, and they make the ride a lot more fun,\u201d says Leonard Sweet.\u00a0 11 indispensable relationships you can\u2019t be without <\/em>is a look at the companions every life traveler needs to successfully make it to his final destination.<\/p>\n

Sweet uses a Biblical character to illustrate each kind of relationship.\u00a0 Of course, we all want self-sacrificing friends like King David\u2019s boyhood companion Jonathan.\u00a0 But, do we really want a relationship with someone like the prophet Nathan, a later trusted adviser to King David, who was quick and clear to his indict his friend?<\/p>\n

Like me, most of you would probably welcome a relationship with a fellow life-traveler as a mentor, coach, encourager, or protector who\u2019d cover your back, but have you ever thought that you might need someone to give you a good kick on the backside, like Jethro did to his son-in-law Moses? \u00a0People who will \u201cedit\u201d you are as necessary in your life as those who will sacrifice their time and resources for you.<\/p>\n

Sweet\u2019s eleventh relationship is the most surprising of all because it isn\u2019t even with a person, but a place, a place where you can pray best, where you can \u201clive the landscape\u201d, a place where you\u2019re \u201ca local\u201d.\u00a0 Everyone needs at least one place to plant spiritual roots.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been said that the meaning of life is in the journey, not the destination.\u00a0 Actually, both are important, but Sweet argues that it\u2019s those who you bring along with you that really make the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou need others to get where you\u2019re going, and they make the ride a lot more fun,\u201d says Leonard Sweet.\u00a0 11 indispensable relationships you can\u2019t be without is a look at the companions every life traveler needs to successfully make it to his final destination. Sweet uses a Biblical character to illustrate each kind of […] Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}