{"id":102,"date":"2006-03-15T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.wordpress.com\/2006\/03\/15\/light\/"},"modified":"2006-03-15T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:57:00","slug":"light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am positive I understand the spiritual lesson of my Lent.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I have acted in a very negative way toward people I&apos;ve never even met.   And to add insult to injury &#8211; my actions are now documented somewhere for all to see thanks to the lack of integrity of two of those individuals I thought I could trust.   I wonder if I would feel such remorse if they hadn&apos;t betrayed my trust?  Of course, the answer is NO.<\/p>\n<p>And there are NO coincidences so this was all meant to be as well.<\/p>\n<p>This is NOT reflective of who I am or my life&apos;s purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Getting caught up in recent events, I let go of who I am in favor of trying to &apos;fit in&apos; with others I thought I could trust.  And there&apos;s NO excuse for this at this point in my life.<\/p>\n<p>I am deeply disappointed in how I&apos;ve acted.  Perhaps if I had truly reflected who I am, things may have been different.<\/p>\n<p>To reflect Love, to draw out the Light of Life, to leave others feeling better because of their encounter with me &#8211; all of this was recently LOST and buried in my own dark shadow.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson definitely learned &#8211; the hard way &#8211; as usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am positive I understand the spiritual lesson of my Lent. Recently, I have acted in a very negative way toward people I&apos;ve never even met. And to add insult to injury &#8211; my actions are now documented somewhere for <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=102\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}