{"id":13766,"date":"2024-07-12T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2024-07-12T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:37:14","slug":"why-do-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/why-do-we-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do We Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><em>Musings on Parenting<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God &#8211; Always Was &#8211; the Eternal Self-Existing One. A Trinity. Never alone, Never lonely, needing, lacking nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet, You created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You created everything. There had been nothing but You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Universe &#8211; its laws, the stars, the planets, their moons &#8211; time and space, and matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Why<\/em>? <em>Why did You do it<\/em>? For the same reason humans have children &#8211; to express, to manifest their love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For all love comes from You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But love implies care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The good shepherd lays down his very life for his sheep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He sees himself as the owner of the sheep, and He is ever watching over His flock. The wolf does not catch Him off-guard, unprepared &#8211; ever. He knows that the wolf is out there, and wants to feed on His sheep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It cannot be mustered up. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It just flows<\/em><\/span> from within the heart of shepherd. And it manifests as care.<\/p>\n<cite>John 10:11-13<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musings on Parenting God &#8211; Always Was &#8211; the Eternal Self-Existing One. A Trinity. Never alone, Never lonely, needing, lacking nothing. Yet, You created. You created everything. There had been nothing but You. The Universe &#8211; its laws, the stars, the planets, their moons &#8211; time and space, and matter. Why? Why did You do &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/12\/why-do-we-do-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why Do We Do It?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkingaccuratelyeducation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}