{"id":272,"date":"2022-02-11T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/?p=272"},"modified":"2022-03-13T05:24:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T05:24:44","slug":"just-be-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/2022\/02\/11\/just-be-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Be My Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/just-be-my-daughter_web-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" width=\"616\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/just-be-my-daughter_web-resized.jpg 430w, https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/just-be-my-daughter_web-resized-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><figcaption> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Since my job ended last month, God is teaching me how to stop striving and doing so much.&nbsp; My life used to be filled to overflowing, and I was in a constant state of trying to juggle dozens of things all at once.&nbsp; My identity was made up of the roles that I identified with and what I did.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I ask God what He wants me to do now, He says to just be His daughter.&nbsp; Do you know how hard it is to go from trying to do&nbsp;<em>everything<\/em>&nbsp;to just&nbsp;<strong>be<\/strong>&nbsp;something?&nbsp; I am learning my identity in Christ, and who He says I am.&nbsp; I have been reading His promises in the Bible and reminding myself of His truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over these past few weeks, I have grown so close to the Lord, and it has been incredible.&nbsp; My relationship with the Holy Spirit has developed and deepened, and I have such peace and trust in my Lord.&nbsp; He has been gently and lovingly tearing down the lies I had believed for far too long, breaking off agreements I had unknowingly set up years ago, and He\u2019s showing me unhealthy habits I need to minimize.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have discovered the beauty that surrounds us, which we never notice in our rush to get something else done.&nbsp; I saw the stunning shadows from a spiral staircase going around a water tower and the pattern caught my breath.&nbsp; Frail yellow poppies danced in the wind as my airplane flew by.&nbsp; God is an amazing artist and my best friend who is remaking me and calling me back to create again.&nbsp; I have a burning desire to write and paint and spend as much of my day in His presence that I can.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not know what this new life is going to look like, or what I will be doing, but I am excited.&nbsp; Every passing day brings adventures with Jesus, and I can\u2019t wait to see what happens tomorrow.&nbsp; I have a new hope, and am here to do whatever He wills, because I love Him with all my heart.&nbsp; God, teach me how to be Your daughter and to truly know that it is more than enough.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my job ended last month, God is teaching me how to stop striving and doing so much.&nbsp; My life used to be filled to overflowing, and I was in a constant state of trying to juggle dozens of things all at once.&nbsp; My identity was made up of the roles that I identified with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/2022\/02\/11\/just-be-my-daughter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just Be My Daughter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.s2gnllc.com\/falling-in-love-with-christ\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}