{"id":2898,"date":"2014-01-19T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2898"},"modified":"2016-10-12T06:11:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:11:16","slug":"why-do-you-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2014\/why-do-you-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do You Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a child born out of wedlock?<\/p>\n<p>Or a child clearly not planned for by your parents?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your presence on this planet may well be the result of your parents petitioning God for a gift. Then all I have to say to you here is this: Get on with fulfilling the vision of your parents and the purposes of God!<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, my dear reader, your presence here may not have been requested by your parents. For all that I know, you may be a so-called &#8220;illegitimate child&#8230;&#8221; <!-- PUT DOTS THERE AND REMOVED THIS ON 10-12-16 AT 6:09 AM like my granddaughter.--> Take heart! Not only are you just as legitimate a child as anyone else, you are on this planet by special divine appointment. God chose to put you here! Get on with fulfilling His vision and purposes!<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/clp\/youth\/1-104.html\">A Child for the Lord<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Be faithful to your mission here on planet Earth!<\/strong> <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/my-cup-runneth-over.jpg\" title=\"My cup runneth over...and over!\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width:400px; height:300px\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/my-cup-runneth-over.jpg\" alt=\"My cup runneth over\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why were you born?<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[389,4],"tags":[515,404,880,547],"class_list":["post-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-christianity-101","tag-encouragement","tag-family","tag-life-lessons","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-KK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}