{"id":4246,"date":"2020-01-14T21:37:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T02:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forglorysake.com\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2020-09-29T21:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:34:42","slug":"worth-the-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/14\/worth-the-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth the wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incase we haven\u2019t had coffee together or lunch, you may not know: I\u2019m the 1st to admit, I\u2018ve had issues. Selfish, pigheaded issues!  And so have my kids. They unfortunately inherited my genes- as all humans do- sinful, willful, stubborn genes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my eyes, I could not have had cuter children or more precious, but they did not come out obeying, submissive or committed to doing God\u2019s will. Like me, they were bent on their own ideas. It was trial and error that proved them poor Rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you see us all holding hands, laughing with our grown children, these things came with long suffering and many, many hours of prayer.  God in His mercy didn\u2019t make everything easy, but He made it rich and deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> There are some scars from choices made, and the pain it caused, but oh the joy when love wins out! It\u2019s been worth the wait. Worth the praying, and fasting and humbling. Harder than I\u2019d ever had imagined but so, so worth the wait. <br><br>Don\u2019t give up parents&#8230; keep praying!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ForGlorySake! -Anna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forglorysake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/D1C415C0-77F9-467D-9C06-525BAB32423F.jpeg?resize=456%2C342&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4247\" width=\"456\" height=\"342\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our beautiful rebels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incase we haven\u2019t had coffee together or lunch, you may not know: I\u2019m the 1st to admit, I\u2018ve had issues. Selfish, pigheaded issues! And so have my kids. They unfortunately inherited my genes- as all humans do- sinful, willful, stubborn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/14\/worth-the-wait\/\">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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,1420],"tags":[243,493,644,1111],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-devotional","tag-family","tag-love","tag-prodigals","tag-relationship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-16u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6377,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}