{"id":10444,"date":"2012-11-03T07:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2012-11-03T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T12:46:57","slug":"mixed-emotions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2012\/20121103-10444.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Emotions"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a continuation of Daniel’s and my story. Read part 1<\/a> for context.<\/i><\/p>\n

I had mixed feelings about Jeremy’s offer. Here I was learning how to enthrone Christ and dethrone marriage–and God sends temptation my way in the form of a setup. I don’t want to lose the ground I’ve been gaining, learning to make Christ my supreme treasure. At the same time, I am acutely conscious of how often I have whined that people don’t understand how to set others up–and commented that I wouldn’t at all mind being the recipient of a setup done right.<\/p>\n

Jeremy did the set-up right. He got the idea and mentioned it to the man (to Daniel). Once Daniel had assented to the idea of being set up with me, Jeremy had approached me about arranging an introduction. Everything was just the way I’d described “the proper way” to set someone up. I rather felt that I’d be a hypocrite if I refused the setup after all my whining.<\/p>\n

I sent Jeremy a message that evening saying that I would be okay with a Facebook introduction, but that I wasn’t sure how much time I’d be able to spend on a relationship since I was pretty busy at work (which was very true.)<\/p>\n

I spent the next couple of weeks second guessing myself.<\/p>\n

Was this wise? I hadn’t spent much time praying about it-had kinda responded on impulse. I was still choosing to delight myself in Christ, wasn’t obsessing over Daniel. But the fact that I’d just agreed to the introduction before I knew for sure that I should troubled me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a continuation of Daniel’s and my story. Read part 1 for context. I had mixed feelings about Jeremy’s offer. Here I was learning how to enthrone Christ and dethrone marriage–and God sends temptation my way in the form of a setup. I don’t want to lose the ground I’ve been gaining, learning to … Read more Mixed Emotions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[39],"tags":[841],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}