{"id":18318,"date":"2017-08-08T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=18318"},"modified":"2017-08-07T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T00:50:10","slug":"love-god-august-8-2017-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/love-god-august-8-2017-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"For the love of God, August 8, 2017 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_18320\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18320\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Brown-County-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Brown-County-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Brown-County-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Brown-County.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Brown-County-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-18320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My children<\/p><\/div>For what reason was humanity created? To know, love, and serve God. Does that sound familiar? It is what our grandparents were taught from the Baltimore Catechism. So many people struggle with the purpose of our creation. When I have been asked that question I draw on my theological studies and answer to love and be in relationship with self, neighbor, God, and creation. When I draw on my life experiences my answer is to be in relationship with God and humanity and to serve both through my love in action. If indeed, this is our purpose then I must ask myself daily how have I lived out this purpose? What have I done for the love of God and humanity?<br \/>\nFor the love of God I&#8230;<br \/>\nbreathe and have my being<br \/>\nam motivated to live my life and get out of bed<br \/>\ncare for my children and husband<br \/>\nwrite what I believe God inspires me to write on my blog<br \/>\nteach my students how to love God in different ways<br \/>\nreach out to our community through service opportunities for my students<br \/>\nattempt to love every student I teach<br \/>\ntry to be who God desires me to be<br \/>\npray and try to get closer to God daily.<\/p>\n<p>What do you believe is our purpose? What do you do for the love of God? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For what reason was humanity created? To know, love, and serve God. Does that sound familiar? It is what our grandparents were taught from the Baltimore Catechism. So many people struggle with the purpose of our creation. When I have been asked that question I draw on my theological studies and answer to love and be in relationship with self, neighbor, God, and creation. When I draw on my life experiences my answer is to be in relationship with God and humanity and to serve both through my love in action. If indeed, this is our purpose then I must <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[941,217,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318"}],"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=18318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}