{"id":206,"date":"2008-12-20T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/2008\/12\/20\/MyLetterToGod.aspx"},"modified":"2008-12-20T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:52:53","slug":"my-letter-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"My Letter to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord,\n<\/p>\n<p>I was asked to sit down today and think about my strengths and think about my weaknesses, and this is what I came to realize:\n<\/p>\n<p>I am weak, but you are strong.  However, I have found that I can do all things when you strengthen me.  When I think I know something, when I think I understand, I find I am a fool.  You alone are wise.  When I ask of you, you give me freely of the fountain of your wisdom.   I confess that I am selfish, and self-willed, but you are compassionate and shelter even the smallest of your creation.  Through you I understand pure and undefiled religion.  I lose my cool so quickly Lord, but you are slow to wrath.  Through your patience I learn to wait on you and you give me strength.  I am unloving and calloused, I mistreat even those closet to me, but you are love Lord, you love even those who despise you, and through you I find compassion for your creatures.\n<\/p>\n<p>I realize that I am weak in all things, but through your sufficiency your power is made manifest in me, you strengthen me in all things, and I am reborn:\n<\/p>\n<p>Lord, I am yours.\n<\/p>\n<p>Your son,\n<\/p>\n<p>Jediah\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Lord, I was asked to sit down today and think about my strengths and think about my weaknesses, and this is what I came to realize: I am weak, but you are strong. However, I have found that I can do all things when you strengthen me. When I think I know something, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Letter to God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-poetry","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}