{"id":13381,"date":"2015-04-03T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=13381"},"modified":"2015-04-03T04:46:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T09:46:12","slug":"jesus-and-me-on-good-friday-april-2-2015-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/jesus-and-me-on-good-friday-april-2-2015-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and Me on Good Friday, April 3, 2015 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13382\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-Good-Friday.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13382\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13382\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-Good-Friday-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright 2015 Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-Good-Friday-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-Good-Friday.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright 2015 Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It dripped from his feet, drops of blood onto the hard, beaten, unforgiving ground.<\/p>\n<p>My eyes blurred by the tears, my heart ripped open, and raw by the anguish in my soul.<\/p>\n<p>There he hung and I could not save him.<\/p>\n<p>There he hung for my shame, my sins, and my choices.<\/p>\n<p>I could see the outline of his muscles, the skin torn from his knees where he had fallen, the blood dried upon his feet where the nails had been driven.<\/p>\n<p>I could not release him.<\/p>\n<p>I could not relieve his human suffering.<\/p>\n<p>I could not stop this crucifixion.<\/p>\n<p>I sat helpless, hopeless and guilt ridden with his blood on my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, when I looked into his eyes he did not cast me off, punish, or demean me.<\/p>\n<p>Instead he loved me; all of me, my transgressions, my poor choices, and my humanity. In his eyes he said, \u201cI will take this for you because I love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He expected nothing in return and in that moment that exchange I learned how to truly love.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath the feet of Jesus Christ on that Good Friday I loved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright 2015 Lori Hadorn-Disselkamp<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was there at the foot of that cross\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[760,128,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}