{"id":3237,"date":"2009-05-26T01:34:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2009-05-26T01:34:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T06:34:04","slug":"none-more-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"Beautifully Unconventional"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tam Hodge<\/a>. Jenni Clayville<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you never get the privilege of spending even 5 minutes with these 2 women in real life… you will have lived an unfulfilled life.<\/p>\n

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I can’t believe there was a time in history when the internet and technology were not a part of our lives. Some people say that the internet and all of this social media mumbo-jumbo is creating fake intimacy. Fake relationships.<\/p>\n

But I say to you now… just look.<\/p>\n

Without blogs, twitter, facebook, etc. I would not even be in Portland this weekend. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to speak at an up and coming church plant<\/a> and minister into the lives of people. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to experience worship with Jenni, Tam, Brent<\/a> and Kass<\/a>. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to meet Brian<\/a> and experience his crazy awesome organic cooking. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to hold, cuddle and nibble on 2 of the cutest kids ever. I wouldn’t have met Lauren Allen<\/a>, Tyler & Rose Braun<\/a>, Mandy Conforth<\/a>, Melanie Sainz<\/a>, or Rick & his wife<\/a>. I wouldn’t have had the opportunity for Kota<\/a> to fart on me (okay, so I could have done without that last one).<\/p>\n

Because of this crazy world (that is getting smaller and smaller each day through technology), I have a whole other family. Real relationships and real friendships, that even 5-10 years ago… would have been impossible to create.<\/p>\n

My life has actually been changed and impacted for the better because of the people I have met through the internet (via lifegroup online, twitter, my blog community, my book site, etc). I think about all of the people I met this weekend and as well as people like Diane<\/a> and David<\/a> who are seriously the most generous and prayerful people I know, Christy<\/a> who is darn near my personal therapist at times and Lynse Stevens<\/a> who is one of my biggest encouragers.<\/p>\n

And there’s so many more people that I can’t even begin to name everyone. I can’t imagine my life without them in it or what it would have been like to never have met them.<\/p>\n

This is Church. This is life. <\/h3>\n

I know it is unconventional. But I wouldn’t have it any other way. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tam Hodge. Jenni Clayville. If you never get the privilege of spending even 5 minutes with these 2 women in real life… you will have lived an unfulfilled life. I can’t believe there was a time in history when the internet and technology were not a part of our lives. Some people say that the… Continue reading Beautifully Unconventional<\/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":[10,165,62,166],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-box-of-chocolates","category-travel","category-what-the","tag-portland","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}