{"id":177,"date":"2010-04-08T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/why-you-as-a-light-for-others\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T02:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T02:32:36","slug":"why-you-as-a-light-for-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/why-you-as-a-light-for-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Why YOU as a Light for Others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this today from Mary Morrisey:<\/p>\n<p>What if you knew that the Holy Spirit wanted to use you this day?<\/p>\n<p>There is a Presence, a Power that created you for a purpose. Your purpose today may be to speak a kind word of encouragement, or it may be some positive action that you can take.<\/p>\n<p>What if you knew that the Spirit of God would use you today to make this world a better place? Consider it a possibility. I think before the day is over you will realize that it is absolutely true.<\/p>\n<p>Once St. Francis of Assisi, was asked, \u2018Why you Francis? Why you? Why did God choose you as a lighthouse to bless this world?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Francis smiled and said, \u2018I will tell you why me. Because there could hardly have been anyone who has made as many mistakes as I have. I have done and been anything you can think of that is abhorrent or unholy. I had absolutely nothing to offer the world. That is precisely why God chose to use me; to give hope to people who feel they have nothing to give. So if the Holy Spirit can work through me, then the Holy Spirit can work through anyone.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I would say to you, <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">your history doesn\u2019t define you.  Your willingness to be of service to God does.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-177\" data-postid=\"177\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-177 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this today from Mary Morrisey: What if you knew that the Holy Spirit wanted to use you this day? There is a Presence, a Power that created you for a purpose. Your purpose today may be to speak a kind word of encouragement, or it may be some positive action that you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bless","category-purpose","category-spirit","has-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}