{"id":52,"date":"2012-02-05T06:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T06:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-05-15T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:37:15","slug":"i-am-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"I am a friend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wondering how to include EVERYONE.<\/p>\n<p>When I pray for Our Best Life, my intention is to include EVERYONE (NO EXCEPTIONS), but how can I then best apply this intention to my physical life (LIVE IT)?<\/p>\n<p>I think attempting to get as close to &#8220;I am&#8221; as possible is the best way to apply this prayer into physical reality. As soon as I say, &#8220;I am a graduate from Purdue&#8221; or &#8220;I am a wife&#8221; I have put myself into an exclusive club that does not and cannot include EVERYONE. \u00a0Obviously these statements are true, but the less I use them to define me, the closer I am to reaching the true and complete &#8220;I am&#8221;. \u00a0The problem arises in the fact that &#8220;I am&#8221; is a very abstract way of defining one&#8217;s self physically so I then started wondering what is the least exclusive, but a less abstract way of attempting to get closer to &#8220;I am&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The one I came up with is &#8220;I am a friend&#8221;. \u00a0If you can be a friend and accept friendship from EVERYONE (NO EXCEPTIONS), then I think you are getting closer to &#8220;I am&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore after this long and complicated thought process I have looped back around to exactly what our pre-school teachers taught us, be friends with EVERYONE!<\/p>\n<p>Say it, live it, believe it and IT WILL BE! \u00a0It is Our Best Life!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wondering how to include EVERYONE. When I pray for Our Best Life, my intention is to include EVERYONE (NO EXCEPTIONS), but how can I then best apply this intention to my physical life (LIVE IT)? I think &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=52\">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":[7],"tags":[28,29,54,11,32,30,27,33,34,36,35,55,53,12,51,10,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-belief-2","tag-believe","tag-best","tag-best-life","tag-connected","tag-connection","tag-faith-2","tag-friend","tag-i-am","tag-include","tag-inclusion","tag-life","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}