{"id":10160,"date":"2014-11-12T07:56:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T14:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10160"},"modified":"2014-11-12T08:07:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T15:07:29","slug":"on-the-perimeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/on-the-perimeter\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Perimeter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I asked a friend to give me some photos that he took at Youth Conference last June. I took hundreds of photos that\u00a0week but\u00a0had few pictures of Paige and nothing of myself. I was hoping that someone had taken a picture of us when we were riding horses, but there weren’t any.<\/p>\n

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As I went through hundreds of pictures, I found a pattern in where I can be found in big groups. I am usually on the perimeter, watching silently. I started to feel pity for that woman who never seemed to be in the middle of things, but I caught myself as I entered this trap that would make me feel of less value.<\/p>\n

I have good relationships with the youth, but\u00a0it’s through individual conversations, teaching Sunday lessons, and writing that these relationships have been made.\u00a0From the perimeter, I see many things that people in the middle\u00a0of the action can miss. There is a place for\u00a0each\u00a0kind of personality. And I can join in the middle of things, too. It’s just not where I spend most of my time.<\/p>\n

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Fun on the Perimeter with both youth and leaders. Just after this photo was taken, I joined in the line dancing we were watching.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hooray for the introverts of the world. (I’m not saying that the above people are introverts.) We seek to know people\u00a0on a deep level, we think before we speak, and we watch before we join in a group or a conversation. When we talk to people, you can be sure that we are investing our hearts and a lot of energy to the conversation. These are all great attributes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I asked a friend to give me some photos that he took at Youth Conference last June. I took hundreds of photos that\u00a0week but\u00a0had few pictures of Paige and nothing of myself. I was hoping that someone had taken a picture of us when we were riding horses, but there weren’t any. As I went … Continue reading On the Perimeter<\/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":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10164,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions\/10164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}