{"id":269,"date":"2009-06-17T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T13:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chadstutzman.net\/?p=269"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T13:09:00","slug":"make-it-personal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Make it Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read about a spiritual exercise that I thought I would do myself.  After doing it I was humbled and reminded what it really means to love people.  We sometimes just read Scripture and don&#8217;t make it personal.  I would encourage you to read this with your name instead of mine.  Then ask yourself does any of this describe me?  Do I love other people this way?  Would anyone in your life say this about you?<\/p>\n<p>Chad is patient, Chad is kind.  He does not envy, he does not boast, he is not proud.  Chad is not rude, he is not self-seeking, he is not easily angered, Chad keeps no record of wrongs, Chad does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  Chad always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but that was a wake up call for me.  That is what I want people to say about me when I am gone.  What can you start doing today to make some of that true about you in your relationships?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read about a spiritual exercise that I thought I would do myself. After doing it I was humbled and reminded what it really means to love people. We sometimes just read Scripture and don&#8217;t make it personal. I would encourage you to read this with your name instead of mine. Then ask yourself &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=269\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make it Personal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-growth","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}