{"id":381,"date":"2013-01-29T13:39:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T19:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=381"},"modified":"2013-02-04T21:22:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T03:22:33","slug":"who-is-your-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"Who is your teacher?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a documentary today with a man in it who had been searching for a guru or teacher since he was young. \u00a0He had found one and then the story went on from there, but it made me think. \u00a0Who is my teacher? \u00a0I haven&#8217;t been searching (at least actively or consciously) since I was young.<\/p>\n<p>When we are not searching then who fills the space of teacher for us?<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the answer is different for everyone, but I think I have always allowed my associations (including my television viewing) to step in and fill the void of teacher in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Only since I have been a stay at home mother (with a little extra time, a lack of colleagues and a recent blessing of a lack of interest in television other than documentaries) have I for the first time in my life been indirectly searching for a teacher because no one\/ no thing has been here to fill the void by default.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus, please guide me to people, books, documentaries and any others sources that will teach me what You want me to know. \u00a0Please help me to prepare to be a sign post, a guide, a light in the night for others or maybe even a teacher if a student ever comes my way.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Our Best Life! \u00a0The choice is ours, we must choose our teachers wisely and not follow others or ideas blindly or by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a documentary today with a man in it who had been searching for a guru or teacher since he was young. \u00a0He had found one and then the story went on from there, but it made me think. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=381\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,171],"tags":[54,67,92,342,341,15,55,322,297,53,12,51,10,343,254,253,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-faith","category-peace","tag-best","tag-christ","tag-god","tag-guide","tag-guru","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-light","tag-lord","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-sign-post","tag-student","tag-teacher","tag-your","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bernadac","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}