{"id":355,"date":"2009-05-30T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T13:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/wordpress\/?p=355"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T13:26:22","slug":"matthew-and-relationships-in-three-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Matthew, and Relationships in Three Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susan brought a prayer request to my attention today. We know a young-ish, unwed mother. When she found out she was pregnant, she and the father moved in together, but didn’t get married. The father decided that the grass was greener somewhere else, and moved out. Now, the mom is having a family gathering and the father, as well as his<\/em> mother, will be there. Susan asked me to pray for the mom, who’ll be in an uncomfortable situation of playing hostess to the man who didn’t want her, as well as his mother. I tried to use this moment as a parenting opportunity, and point out the difficulties that are avoided when a man and woman love each other, get married, and then<\/em> have kids. Julia said something to the effect of “I’m not sure I want kids.”<\/p>\n

Matthew jumped in and said “I want to have two boys when I get married. But first, I have to find\u00a0 a good wife.” Susan and I praised him, and said that’s exactly what he should do. He went on to explain his plan in three easy steps:<\/p>\n

“First,” he said, “you find a good wife. Next, you always treat her right. And then always make her a good breakfast on Mothers’ Day.”<\/p>\n

There are men out there who could really take a lesson from this four year old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susan brought a prayer request to my attention today. We know a young-ish, unwed mother. When she found out she was pregnant, she and the father moved in together, but didn’t get married. The father decided that the grass was greener somewhere else, and moved out. Now, the mom is having a family gathering and … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-355","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"post_tag-kids"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}