{"id":150,"date":"2008-06-05T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrtministry.org\/why-do-i-do-what-i-do\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T15:36:00","slug":"why-do-i-do-what-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/why-do-i-do-what-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I do what I do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesdays I work with a group of men and was asked the question last night, &#8220;Why do I do what I do (with regards to working with them)?&#8221;  Why do I get involved in the lives of others?  It is in community where faith is strengthened, passions deepened, gifts used, and blessings received.<\/p>\n<p>I love to hear the stories of others, their life&#8217;s journey, their ah-ha moments, their struggles.  You see as we all share we all are blessed, we all can grow, we all can experience those ah-ha moments.  Look at the Bible, it is now a dull dry list of do this, don&#8217;t do that.  No, rather it is a collection of stories meant to draw us into a closer relationship with God, to shape and mold us, to make us the person God wants us to be.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I do what I do, because I am called to love God and love others so that is what I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesdays I work with a group of men and was asked the question last night, &#8220;Why do I do what I do (with regards to working with them)?&#8221; Why do I get involved in the lives of others? It is in community where faith is strengthened, passions deepened, gifts used, and blessings received. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/why-do-i-do-what-i-do\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do I do what I do?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serving-others"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZq6-2q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}