{"id":3588,"date":"2015-10-13T01:07:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T01:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oshetablogs.wordpress.com\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2015-10-13T01:07:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T01:07:50","slug":"friendship-project-day-11-lessons-from-a-boyband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/shalominthecity\/2015\/10\/friendship-project-day-11-lessons-from-a-boyband\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Project Day 11: Lessons from a Boy-Band"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

*I\u2019m getting ready to leave for Allume and thought of this talk I wrote for a women\u2019s conference I organized several years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"let's-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If any woman is going to be my friend, she\u2019s going to need to accept this one secret shame of mine I love boybands.\u00a0\u00a0 New Kids on the Block, Bel Biv Devo, 98 Degrees, One Direction, BOYZ to Men! I love them all, but one particular boy band holds a special place in my heart.<\/p>\n

The Backstreet Boys<\/p>\n

\"Backstreet-Boys-the-backstreet-boys-31014990-1046-800\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(True story we had this exact poster on our bedroom wall)<\/p>\n

They are truly eye and (arguably)\u00a0 ear candy, but somehow God is resourceful enough to use them to shape how I approach female friendships.<\/p>\n

It all started with my little sister. \u00a0Who is too much like Mary, sister of Martha, worrier of all the wrong things.<\/p>\n

I completely relate to Martha in her story in Luke 10\u00a0 because much like Mary my sister was the laid-back, in the moment, outgoing personality who could charm just about any boy after a couple of sentence.<\/p>\n

When I was studying away for my AP Geography midterm, she was studying Teen Vogue to put together an outfit for that was \u201con trend\u201d.<\/p>\n

While I cooked dinner most nights for our family of 8, she take up all the extra mixing spoons and bowls to make an all natural acne cream\u2026 in the same kitchen\u2026.right in my way. \u00a0She was oblivious.<\/p>\n

While I agonized over the details of my summer math camp application, you could find her sitting at the feet of TV biting her nails down to the quick over the most recent break-up on 90210.<\/p>\n

We were completely different my sis and I and we fought constantly until one fateful afternoon when we found common ground in one slightly risque music video of\u00a0 five extremely cute boys, dancing in the rain, begging us through the screen to \u201cQuit Playing Game With Their Hearts\u201d<\/p>\n