{"id":5404,"date":"2018-01-18T00:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2018-01-18T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T04:07:11","slug":"even-our-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5404","title":{"rendered":"Even Our Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By becoming a Christian, we say we are giving our lives to Christ.  If that&#8217;s true &#8212; if we&#8217;ve given our lives to Christ &#8212; we&#8217;ve given it all.  Everything.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And if that&#8217;s true, it includes &#8212; and boy, is this tough to say as a dad &#8212; it includes our very children.  They&#8217;re his.<\/p>\n<p>No one can take anything, or anyone, from His grip.  They can take from ours, but not His.<\/p>\n<p>So watch them sleep, and thank God for them, and know that they&#8217;re on loan.  He loves them even more than you do.  And whatever happens, He&#8217;s got the big picture; we don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brant Hansen, <em>Unoffendable<\/em>, p. 121<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By becoming a Christian, we say we are giving our lives to Christ. If that&#8217;s true &#8212; if we&#8217;ve given our lives to Christ &#8212; we&#8217;ve given it all. Everything. And if that&#8217;s true, it includes &#8212; and boy, is this tough to say as a dad &#8212; it includes our very children. They&#8217;re his. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}