{"id":18350,"date":"2020-06-19T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T17:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=18350"},"modified":"2020-07-25T10:37:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:37:14","slug":"18350","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/18350\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5192020123430.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5192020123430.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5192020123430-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In friendship&#8230;we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years&#8217; difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another&#8230;the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting- any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A master of secret ceremonies has been at work.<br><br>Christ, who said to the disciples, &#8220;Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you,&#8221; can truly say to every group of Christian friends, &#8220;Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another.&#8221; The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.<br><br>C.S. Lewis, <em>The Four Loves<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5192020123449.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18355\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5192020123449.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/5192020123449-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My childhood friends gathered at a park near our elementary school in Provo to solve the world&#8217;s problems. The editor of the high school paper, the cheerleader, the actress, and I still found a way to get the giggles, despite all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In friendship&#8230;we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years&#8217; difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another&#8230;the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting- any of these chances might have kept &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/18350\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350","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=18350"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18504,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350\/revisions\/18504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}