{"id":837,"date":"2014-04-02T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=837"},"modified":"2014-04-02T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T19:07:14","slug":"remember-our-true-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Remember our true home!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not usually a cynic, but today after spending too much at the grocery I arrived home, checked the mail and found a magazine that had a picture of probably a $5 million dollar home on the front with the article titled, &#8220;Love your home!&#8221;, and I thought to myself&#8230; seriously? \u00a0Do the people writing and publishing this magazine really believe that looking at photos of this outrageously extravagant house will help me and others love our homes? \u00a0Seriously&#8230; do they really believe this?<\/p>\n<p>I took the magazine straight to the recycling box, because I certainly know that looking at it would not help me to love my home, but I have been wondering why it bothered me so much today. \u00a0Most days this wouldn&#8217;t phase me or bother me, but it did today.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my annoyance with this magazine is because, as scary as it is to say or to type, in a way it reminds me of my own expensive home, of my own excess, of my own greed, and of my own issues with envy? \u00a0Maybe for a moment I forgot about my true home?<\/p>\n<p>Lord please be with me and remove envy from my heart and replace it with Your generosity and gratitude because I long to always love the home You have given to me while I am here, but most of all I long to always remember that You are my true home.<\/p>\n<p>Please help me, I can&#8217;t do it without You, my Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not usually a cynic, but today after spending too much at the grocery I arrived home, checked the mail and found a magazine that had a picture of probably a $5 million dollar home on the front with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=837\">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":[6,7,298,123],"tags":[54,67,349,999,43,995,92,440,770,444,584,15,55,297,116,997,53,12,51,10,441,783,124,998,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessings","category-faith","category-gratitude","category-prayer","tag-best","tag-christ","tag-envy","tag-excess","tag-generosity","tag-generous","tag-god","tag-gratitude-2","tag-greed","tag-heart","tag-home-2","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-love","tag-love-your-home","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-thankful","tag-thanksgiving","tag-true","tag-true-home","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\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}