{"id":25,"date":"2008-03-03T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/falling-down\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T00:49:15","slug":"falling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/falling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, like little children we forget God, we run off on our own, then, suddenly we fall down. We trip ourselves up, or some event happens and we wonder &#8211; \u201cwhy did that happen to me? What am I supposed to do now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wisest advice is to assess where you are. Are you down on your face? Are you on your knees? Are you in pain? Are there tears?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s at times like these that we need to praise God, because we are down for a reason: we&#8217;re actually where we need to be, humble, hurt and looking up.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we were going faster than God wanted us to go. Most likely moving in the wrong direction. Maybe we failed to be repentant and humble.<\/p>\n<p>So what would you rather have, lots of small stumbles or one terribly hard crash?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, like little children we forget God, we run off on our own, then, suddenly we fall down. We trip ourselves up, or some event happens and we wonder &#8211; \u201cwhy did that happen to me? What am I supposed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/falling-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[131,235],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-pride","tag-repentance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}