{"id":503,"date":"2018-09-16T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=503"},"modified":"2018-09-16T22:46:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T22:46:02","slug":"my-prayer-that-bad-would-lead-to-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"My Prayer&#8230;that bad would lead to good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in South Carolina and for days we have been wondering what effects hurricane Florence would have. \u00a0Though it was downgraded from a category 4 to a\u00a0category 2 before landfall, it has certainly been destructive. \u00a0For some it has been truly devastating. \u00a0Suffering comes in all sorts of ways, but when it comes from something that we have absolutely no control over, it causes its own sort of anxiety. \u00a0And hopefully, it provokes deeper thought.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Control over our lives is pretty much an illusion, anyway. \u00a0We certainly have the ability to choose different paths. \u00a0But our vision of what is down those paths is very limited. \u00a0It is often the unexpected, good and bad, that shapes ours lives. \u00a0And sometimes what is painful redirects us to a better path. \u00a0Years ago, someone wrote &#8220;It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>My simple prayer is that, as a nation, we might learn. \u00a0We are not in control of hurricanes. \u00a0We are not in control of floods. \u00a0We are finite beings who like to pretend that we are more powerful than we really are. \u00a0A little humility would serve us well. \u00a0A thankful heart for blessings would be healing also. \u00a0It would be good to remember our creator who &#8220;sits enthroned over the flood&#8230;as king forever.&#8221; \u00a0May He bless us with peace. \u00a0Perhaps He is trying to remind us of whence we came&#8230;.and if we feel lost, how to find our way back.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in South Carolina and for days we have been wondering what effects hurricane Florence would have. \u00a0Though it was downgraded from a category 4 to a\u00a0category 2 before landfall, it has certainly been destructive. \u00a0For some it has been truly devastating. \u00a0Suffering comes in all sorts of ways, but when it comes from [&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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5WySj-87","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\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctormomx4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}