{"id":5585,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/daring-to-be-eccentric\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:57","slug":"daring-to-be-eccentric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/daring-to-be-eccentric\/","title":{"rendered":"Daring To Be Eccentric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McGinnis writes Christian self-help books.  He is realistic and believes there are limits to happiness.  It is not enough to \u201clove ourselves\u201d because all of us have a dark side which needs to be faced and remodeled.  This takes time and is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>[below used 2\/14\/93:]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to keep thinking that I would be happy when I got one more degree or when I got a particular job or when I got financial security.  But every time I reached a goal, I was so disappointed \u2014 the victory was so empty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally I realized that I will never hit some plateau of happiness in this world.  In fact, I won\u2019t ever have a day of unmitigated happiness, because happiness seems to come in bits and pieces.  I never have a day, though, when God does not offer me moments of reward and fulfillment and happiness; and my task is to savor those as they come.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGinnis writes Christian self-help books. He is realistic and believes there are limits to happiness. It is not enough to \u201clove ourselves\u201d because all of us have a dark side which needs to be faced and remodeled. This takes time and is difficult. [below used 2\/14\/93:] \u201cI used to keep thinking that I would be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2953,272,2951,326,2954,1112,2950,2955,946,1311,2952,929],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}