{"id":288,"date":"2009-03-13T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/?p=288"},"modified":"2009-03-13T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T19:00:39","slug":"soul-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/soul-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life has two guarantees \u2013 taxes and death.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

How much can one soul endure before that final release from life\u2019s bondage?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about control, or the lack there of.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Life\u2019s challenges, big and small, are to build endurance of character after all.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where do I stand now?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What have I accomplished?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What do I have to show for my years on the planet?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where do I go from here?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

God?\u00a0 <\/span>God?\u00a0 <\/span>Do you hear?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

God?\u00a0 <\/span>God?\u00a0 <\/span>Are you really there?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

God?\u00a0 <\/span>God?\u00a0 <\/span>What now?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

God?\u00a0 <\/span>God?\u00a0 <\/span>Why?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Every time I feel that my choices are Will driven, I find myself wondering if they were truly God given.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tired?\u00a0 <\/span>I am truly tired of my journey\u2019s discernment.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait for release upon the body\u2019s interment.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Control?\u00a0 <\/span>How?\u00a0 <\/span>With what means?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Smoking?\u00a0 <\/span>Drinking?\u00a0 <\/span>Eating?\u00a0 <\/span>Drugs?\u00a0 <\/span>Buying new things?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Control over my final release from all the stress, disappointment, confusion, financial struggle?\u00a0 <\/span>Will my soul ever find its tired way home?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

At this point, I don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The guarantee of death is the only way to go.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Control?\u00a0 <\/span>I say so.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life has two guarantees \u2013 taxes and death. How much can one soul endure before that final release from life\u2019s bondage? It\u2019s all about control, or the lack there of. Life\u2019s challenges, big and small, are to build endurance of character after all. Where do I stand now? What have I accomplished? What do I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life-and-times","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Dh6V-4E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wilanddenise.com\/jobina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}