{"id":10084,"date":"2016-01-01T14:15:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2016-01-01T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:16:28","slug":"best-gift-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=10084","title":{"rendered":"Best.  Gift. EVER."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10086\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chloe-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10086\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10086\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chloe-R.jpg\" alt=\"Sweet Chloe\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chloe-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chloe-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweet Chloe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Christmas Eve I was talking a bit with Chloe and she brought up Jesus living in her heart again. \u00a0Tim and I have had many discussions about when a child is ready and wanting to make sure that she truly understands. \u00a0It&#8217;s been tough for me to figure out if she really comprehends sin and everything that goes with it. \u00a0 And it always seems that she brings it up when Tim isn&#8217;t around, so I&#8217;m left scrambling for the &#8220;right&#8221; answers. \u00a0At least that&#8217;s what it feels like to me.<\/p>\n<p>But Christmas Eve was different. \u00a0She was asking more probing questions. \u00a0So I asked her if she was ready to pray to ask Jesus in her heart and, after a few minutes of consideration, she said she was ready.<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah!<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. \u00a0What better gift could I ask for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Christmas Eve I was talking a bit with Chloe and she brought up Jesus living in her heart again. \u00a0Tim and I have had many discussions about when a child is ready and wanting to make sure that she truly understands. \u00a0It&#8217;s been tough for me to figure out if she really comprehends sin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}