{"id":4158,"date":"2011-10-04T07:33:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2011-10-04T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:35:13","slug":"imitate-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=4158","title":{"rendered":"Imitate Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=4160\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4160\" title=\"Emma and Mommy working\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Emma-and-Mommy-working-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Emma-and-Mommy-working-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Emma-and-Mommy-working-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=4159\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4159\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4159\" title=\"IMG_2075\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2075-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2075-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2075-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2075.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lately, God has been reminding me that my sweet daughter Emma is imitating everything that I do.\u00a0 That is definitely an encouragement to me to make sure that I am not leading her to be more like me&#8230;but rather to be modeling Christ in a way that means she will become more Christlike if she imitates me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippians 4:4-9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><em>Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!<strong> <\/strong>Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.<strong> <\/strong>Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong>And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. <\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><\/strong>Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable\u2013if anything is excellent or praiseworthy\u2013think about such things.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me\u2013put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, God has been reminding me that my sweet daughter Emma is imitating everything that I do.\u00a0 That is definitely an encouragement to me to make sure that I am not leading her to be more like me&#8230;but rather to be modeling Christ in a way that means she will become more Christlike if she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,12,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-emma","category-family","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}