{"id":2915,"date":"2007-08-09T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T00:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/08\/to-be-a-child-of-god\/"},"modified":"2007-08-09T00:17:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T00:17:02","slug":"to-be-a-child-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/2007\/08\/to-be-a-child-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be A Child of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"edith1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/edith1.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"324\"style=\"float:right; margin-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Whatever did not fit in with my plan<br \/>\ndid lie within the plan of God.<br \/>\nI have an ever deeper and firmer belief<br \/>\nthat nothing is merely an accident<br \/>\nwhen seen in the light of God,<br \/>\nthat my whole life down to the smallest details<br \/>\nhas been marked out for me<br \/>\nin the plan of Divine Providence<br \/>\nand has a completely coherent meaning<br \/>\nin God&#8217;s all seeing eyes.<br \/>\nTo be a child of God,<br \/>\nthat means to be led by the Hand of God,<br \/>\nto do the Will of God, not one&#8217;s own will,<br \/>\nto place every care and every Hope in the Hand of God<br \/>\nand not to worry about one&#8217;s future.<br \/>\nOn this rests the freedom and the joy of the child of God.<br \/>\nBut how few of even the truly pious,<br \/>\neven of those ready for heroic sacrifices, possess this freedom.<br \/>\nWhen night comes, and you look back over the day<br \/>\nand see how fragmentary everything has been,<br \/>\nand how much you planned that has gone undone,<br \/>\nand all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed:<br \/>\njust take everything exactly as it is,<br \/>\nput it in God&rsquo;s hands and leave it with Him.<br \/>\nThen you will be able to rest in Him \u2014really rest \u2014<br \/>\nand start the next day as a new life.<br \/>\nSaint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, O.C.D.<br \/>\nOctober 12, 1891 \u2014 August 9, 1942<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whatever did not fit in with my plan did lie within the plan of God. I have an ever deeper and firmer belief that nothing is merely an accident when seen in the light of God, that my whole life down to the smallest details has been marked out for me in the plan of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVypq-L1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vultuschristi.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}