{"id":441,"date":"2010-04-13T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2010-04-13T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T20:28:00","slug":"your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;This is your life,<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Treat yourself right,<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Treat others right,<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Do what you know you should.&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">~Newsboys<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S8TXHDxREnI\/AAAAAAAAGvc\/OloqpYO8-h4\/s1600\/DSC07023.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/S8TXHDxREnI\/AAAAAAAAGvc\/OloqpYO8-h4\/s320\/DSC07023.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459725164550886002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">When I first started blogging the only alone time I got was in the van driving my oldest back and forth to school and so I had named the spiritual part of my blog &#8216;Van Visions&#8217;.  Of late I find I am not able to find spiritual alone time in my own home.  I am not comfortable with seeking my Jesus out there.  I don&#8217;t know exactly why, I am sure this is just a season, but the point is I am again very thankful for &#8216;Van Visions&#8217;.  Jesus knows how to speak to me where I am at and lately that seems to be in the vehicle again.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">When in a storm I often feel selfish and then tend to deal with that by self punishment&#8230; it doesn&#8217;t work.  I quickly forget how others see me and assume they see me as my internal dialogue says.  It is ironically very very self focused, this kind of depression&#8230; Trying to snap myself out of selfishness alone often leads to more selfishness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It seems totally wrong to have the approach of &#8216;treat yourself right&#8217; at times like this in my life and yet that is what Christ keeps whispering to me.  We are no good to anyone if we are not good to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Learning to make alone time, give yourself breaks&#8230; Learning to stop obsessing about mistakes and character flaws will allow one to focus on things beyond them self&#8230; others beyond them self&#8230; Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>I think I could get more time in then just the drives around the city&#8230; I think I assume I need to put off alone time and after a while when I have gone without I run from it&#8230;  But I need to treat myself right and spend time with my Jesus.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">LUKE 5:16<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARK 1:35-37<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Now in the morning, having risen a long while before daylight, He went out and departed to a solitary place; and there He prayed.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>TTFN<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is your life, Treat yourself right, Treat others right, Do what you know you should.&#8221; ~Newsboys When I first started blogging the only alone time I got was in the van driving my oldest back and forth to school and so I had named the spiritual part of my blog &#8216;Van Visions&#8217;. Of late [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,25,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}