{"id":2412,"date":"2009-01-19T00:09:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T05:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2009-01-19T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T05:09:15","slug":"bachelors-of-real-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Bachelors of Real Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>What makes anyone qualified to do anything? <\/h3>\n<p>Lately, I have been battling the thought of, &#8220;what right do I have to minister to anyone?&#8221; because I am not in full time &#8220;people&#8221; ministry and I don&#8217;t have some piece of paper saying that I completed 120 hours of college classes.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that I have served and worked in ministry in some capacity for nearly 8 years now&#8211;but mainly in communications (web, writing, design). When it comes to all of the things I am trying to tackle now (ie. writing for and counseling women with porn\/sex addiction, leading lifegroup online, etc.) I battle the thought of &#8220;am I qualified?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>After all, I am only 24. I am a girl in a land of boys. I don&#8217;t have the book smarts. And I am not all that eloquent. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>They say that God equips the called and not necessarily calls the equipped. I pray that is the case for me and these things I feel He&#8217;s calling me to do right now. I have my own life experiences to fall back on&#8211;but I certainly have a lot more to learn.<\/p>\n<h3>May I never forget that or think I have it all together. The moment I do&#8230; will be the moment I fall on my face.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes anyone qualified to do anything? Lately, I have been battling the thought of, &#8220;what right do I have to minister to anyone?&#8221; because I am not in full time &#8220;people&#8221; ministry and I don&#8217;t have some piece of paper saying that I completed 120 hours of college classes. It is true that I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=2412\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bachelors of Real Life<\/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":[165,27,43,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-dirty-girls","category-online-lifegroup","category-pink-elephants","category-porn","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}