{"id":1048,"date":"2015-01-04T19:20:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T03:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2015-01-04T19:20:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T03:20:38","slug":"true-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"True Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 True Friends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have two friends<\/p>\n<p>who love one another.<\/p>\n<p>Although, they love the Lord<\/p>\n<p>even more than each other.<\/p>\n<p>I have known him<\/p>\n<p>since first grade in school.<\/p>\n<p>I have known her<\/p>\n<p>for a number of years too.<\/p>\n<p>I was happy when they<\/p>\n<p>married over 8 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord\u2019s been with them<\/p>\n<p>for three years, or so.<\/p>\n<p>They have two children.<\/p>\n<p>A daughter and a son.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they are planning<\/p>\n<p>to adopt a little one.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re a musical family.<\/p>\n<p>They sing for the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>They sing in church, on TV,<\/p>\n<p>whatever their accord.<\/p>\n<p>They are great gospel workers,<\/p>\n<p>these friends of mine.<\/p>\n<p>With Bible lessons and singing,<\/p>\n<p>they\u2019re busy all the time.<\/p>\n<p>God bless and protect<\/p>\n<p>these friends that I love.<\/p>\n<p>These friends that I treasure<\/p>\n<p>and often think of.<\/p>\n<p>God, please help them<\/p>\n<p>in whatever they do.<\/p>\n<p>For, if it wasn\u2019t for them<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d have never found you.&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(1994)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 True Friends I have two friends who love one another. Although, they love the Lord even more than each other. I have known him since first grade in school. I have known her for a number of years too. I was happy when they married over 8 years ago. The Lord\u2019s been with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=1048\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">True Friends<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-factual","category-nostalgia","category-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1049,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}