Sometimes I say or write “beautiful” and\/or “inspirational” and\/or “pious” things. When my children hear or read such things, sometimes I wonder if any one of them thinks: “That doesn’t fit Dad. I know him — what he’s saying just doesn’t fit him.”<\/p>\n
I want the words I say and write to fit me. And when they’re “spiritual” words, I want me to fit them as well.<\/p>\n
“Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips”<\/font><\/strong><\/em> (Proverbs 22:17,18).<\/p>\n So the keys to having lofty words fit me is pay attention to them in my own living, to apply myself to them, to keep them within me…consciously and purposefully.<\/p>\n Will God’s Word echo through my being today? Or is my heart too dull to echo at all?<\/p>\n Oh, by the way, at what point does midlife crisis kick in? I was born 46 years ago today. Since I don’t expect to live to be 92, perhaps I have already put my midlife crisis behind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes I say or write “beautiful” and\/or “inspirational” and\/or “pious” things. When my children hear or read such things, sometimes I wonder if any one of them thinks: “That doesn’t fit Dad. I know him — what he’s saying just doesn’t fit him.” I want the words I say and write to fit me. And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-proverbs","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}