{"id":2498,"date":"2019-05-04T13:50:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2019-05-21T03:07:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T03:07:00","slug":"a-son-or-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"A Son or a Stick?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There are a couple of ways to retrieve something that is out of reach.\u00a0 A father may pick up his son and lift him to where the son can take hold of the object.\u00a0 On the other hand, the father may just decide to use a stick to reach the desired object.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When a father decides to involve his son in the task at hand, the relationship between the father and son is emphasized and enhanced.\u00a0 There is communication, instruction and a shared satisfaction at accomplishing the task.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>On the other hand, if the father decides to use a stick to accomplish the task, there is no relationship involved.\u00a0 The task ends with the casting aside of the stick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">God accomplishes His purposes both ways.\u00a0 Some individuals are sons or daughters whose relationship shares in the joy of accomplishing God&#8217;s purposes and plans.\u00a0 Others are just sticks which are cast aside when God&#8217;s purpose is accomplished.\u00a0 The saddest part\u00a0about this is that the sticks don&#8217;t even know that they are just sticks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A son or a stick, which one are you?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of ways to retrieve something that is out of reach.\u00a0 A father may pick up his son and lift him to where the son can take hold of the object.\u00a0 On the other hand, the father may just decide to use a stick to reach the desired object.\u00a0\u00a0 When a father &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/?p=2498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Son or a Stick?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leadinghorsestowater.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}