{"id":14446,"date":"2011-07-14T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/profession-of-faith\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T16:20:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T21:20:48","slug":"profession-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/profession-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Profession of faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noelle told us that she believes in Jesus\u2019 redemptive story and that she wants to live like he did all of the days of her life.&#160; She prayed all about it on the potty (literally) in Fazoli\u2019s in Waco, Tx on our way home from the lake on July 5, 2011.&#160; She was smiling the biggest smile I had ever seen in my life with giggles in between.&#160; It was a beautiful moment in her journey as a Christ follower. <\/p>\n<p>She is so pure of heart, and her relationship with God is so natural.&#160; We do most of the listening when it comes to her spirituality because we believe being in tune with the creator is innate.&#160; And once she was told about Jesus and who he was, it was like she had known him all along.&#160; Mike and I are practicing Christianity in a way that is intellectually honest to ourselves based on as much truth and evidence as we can find.&#160; It looks a little differently than they way we both grew up, but it is full of peace and hope in the one true God, maker of heaven and earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noelle told us that she believes in Jesus\u2019 redemptive story and that she wants to live like he did all of the days of her life.&#160; She prayed all about it on the potty (literally) in Fazoli\u2019s in Waco, Tx on our way home from the lake on July 5, 2011.&#160; She was smiling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}