{"id":221,"date":"2016-07-19T20:29:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2016-07-19T20:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T20:58:37","slug":"the-making-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/19\/the-making-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2016-07-19<\/p>\n

Pondering the life and mission of Corrie Ten Boom, I wondered if one such as I would ever be able to walk with her same faith.<\/p>\n

I started to express my inability to even envision such a thing but stopped myself, knowing that if I can’t envision it then it will surely never happen.<\/p>\n

Instead I asked the Lord to please work His miracles in me that I might one day be a servant such as she.<\/p>\n

At the completion of my prayer–and still feeling deeply inadequate–a tap on my Instragram icon brought me this message,<\/p>\n

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“Okay.”\u00a0 I surrendered. “This is all I need to know. I will be a patient student under thy tutelage and trust in thy will.”<\/p>\n

The peace and light I felt from this confirmation was short lived as the forces of darkness descended upon me, conspiring to make me feel miserable, unworthy, incapable–Depressed!<\/p>\n

It is a common tactic. One that has worked to stop me many times before and one that nearly worked again as I contemplated giving up writing and interaction with the human race entirely. But this time it couldn’t work. Not with the knowing I have received from my God.<\/p>\n

He told me to write. He showed me the outcome. To give up now would be to deny His word and the power of His promises.<\/p>\n

And–<\/p>\n

even if it means that I have to scrape myself off of the floor to scribble prose with shaky hands–<\/p>\n

to deny Him is something I simply cannot do.<\/p>\n

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Pondering the life and mission of Corrie Ten Boom, I wondered if one such as I would ever be able to walk with her same faith. I started to express my inability to even envision such a thing but stopped myself, knowing that if I can’t envision it then it will surely never happen. Instead … Continue reading “The making of me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsforthisday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}