{"id":12047,"date":"2018-07-07T13:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-07T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:09","slug":"wild-friend-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wild-friend-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wild Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found a new wild friend hanging around outside our sun room.\u00a0 Want to meet him?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

As a child, I feared bats greatly.\u00a0 They suck human blood and carry rabies, I thought.\u00a0 Also, they just looked plain creepy to me.\u00a0 When I saw a bat around dusk while I played outside, I would run inside and stay there.<\/p>\n

As an adult, I realized that a bat is just a wild friend, not something to feel anxious about. Bats do help me: \u00a0they eat pesky insects that love to bite my sensitive skin.\u00a0 Realizing I do not need to fear them, I began to look around and hope to see bats instead of the bugs that try to bite me constantly.<\/p>\n

Then my husband and I moved to a part of the United States that has too many pesky insects.\u00a0 When we moved here, our new friends told us that bats had almost become extinct up here because of a disease called \u201cwhite nose disease\u201d that killed most of them a few years ago.<\/p>\n

But yesterday we noticed a bat hanging upside down inside one of the storm windows of our sunroom.<\/p>\n

\"Encouraging<\/p>\n

He was trapped and could not find his way out. We unscrewed the storm window and he flew back to his bat friends.<\/p>\n

When I saw this bat hanging under our storm window, I did have any thoughts of fear.\u00a0 Instead, I thought, \u201cGreat!\u00a0 Here is a wild friend who can reduce my bug bites!\u201d<\/p>\n

My thought processes with people are the same as my thought processes about bats.\u00a0 Although at times I feel frustrated with others, I seldom completely write anyone off.\u00a0 Instead, I just put a relationship on the back burner until I can deal with it.\u00a0 I do this because I never know when in the future the relationship might turn out to be positive.<\/p>\n

For example, Donna has been a thorn in my side as well as in the side of one of my friends.\u00a0 She has been negative to me and to my friend, but I am not writing her off because someday we might be able to help each other. Who knows?\u00a0 Donna might turn out to be a \u201cwild friend\u201d someday like the bat pictured above.<\/p>\n

Just some food for thought on this beautiful summer day.<\/p>\n

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I found a new wild friend hanging around outside our sun room.\u00a0 Want to meet him? As a child, I feared bats greatly.\u00a0 They suck human blood and carry rabies, I thought.\u00a0 Also, they just looked plain creepy to me.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1862],"tags":[1588,3666,3665,3667,77,1271,1269,1328,1334,1270,1329,1337,1714,1332,1321,12,1331,1330,1320,1273,1322,1302,1274,1323,1325,1326,1324,19,1275,1319,1318,716,3670,3669,1327,1336,1335,1268,1333,297,3668,1299],"class_list":["post-12047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-problems-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words-eagle","tag-common-core-eagle-reading-book","tag-bat","tag-bats","tag-bats-eat-bugs","tag-bj-rae","tag-books-for-children","tag-books-for-kids","tag-child-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-reading-book","tag-common-core-book","tag-common-core-reading-book","tag-core-reading-book","tag-eagle","tag-eagle-book-for-child","tag-eagle-child-book","tag-eagle-children-book","tag-eagle-childrens-book","tag-eagle-core-reading-book","tag-eagle-kid-book","tag-eagle-kids-book","tag-eagle-reading-book","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-child","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-children","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-kids","tag-encouragement","tag-encouraging","tag-encouraging-childrens-book","tag-encouraging-kids-book","tag-encouraging-words","tag-fear-of-a-bat","tag-fear-of-bats","tag-kid-eagle-reading-book","tag-kid-reading-book","tag-kids-book","tag-kids-books","tag-reading-book","tag-soar-like-an-eagle","tag-wild-friend","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21221,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions\/21221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}