{"id":1496,"date":"2024-09-15T10:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2024-09-15T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:05:46","slug":"waking-up-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Waking Up To Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The universe is a miraculous place&#8230;from forming stars and interacting galaxies to the beauty of a tiny flower petal, it speaks forth wonders.\u00a0 That is why spending time outside-camping, hiking, watching a sunset-brings refreshement and renewal.<\/p>\n<p>Why does nature move us so much?\u00a0 Why do we have this need within us sometimes to get away from the noise and clamor of the world to the quiet and solitude of a peaceful, beautiful place?\u00a0 It seems we are made with a hunger for more than just existing.\u00a0 We are not just flesh and blood, but spirit also.\u00a0 Flesh and blood gets sick, grows old, decays, passes away&#8230;but we sense that that is not all that we are.\u00a0\u00a0 We have a sense of eternity within us.\u00a0 Our spirit longs for more!\u00a0 We desire beauty, order, transcendence.\u00a0 We desire to know where we came from, why we are here, where we are going.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Questions, questions&#8230;.awaiting an answer.\u00a0 God says &#8230;.\u00a0 get to know Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Knowing Christ is becoming alive.\u00a0 Someone once said (I don&#8217;t remember who) that &#8220;becoming a Christian is waking up to reality.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 It is like a homecoming &#8211; finally finding out what you are searching for . It is the start of a jouney&#8230;&#8230; the greatest adventure with the greatest Guide.\u00a0 It is not having all the answers but knowing the God who does.<\/p>\n<p>Become aquainted with the designer of the universe!\u00a0\u00a0 He really is the way&#8230;.and the truth&#8230;..and the life! What could be more amazing than that?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is a miraculous place&#8230;from forming stars and interacting galaxies to the beauty of a tiny flower petal, it speaks forth wonders.\u00a0 That is why spending time outside-camping, hiking, watching a sunset-brings refreshement and renewal. Why does nature move us so much?\u00a0 Why do we have this need within us sometimes to get away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,63,61,62],"class_list":["post-1496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freedom","tag-hope","tag-life","tag-peace"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WySj-o8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}