{"id":858,"date":"2010-08-30T13:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2010-08-30T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T06:07:08","slug":"meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Meant to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:344px;\"><span id=\"vvq-858-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l9ksMpwqjXQ\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/l9ksMpwqjXQ\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve never been crazy about that phrase when used in the way of describing that my kids were &#8220;meant to be adopted by us&#8221;.\u00a0 No. \u00a0Instead I\u00a0try to remind\u00a0folks that while it did not catch God off guard, it was certainly not the ideal.\u00a0 That would be making too little of my kids&#8217; losses in life.\u00a0 However, Steven Curtis Chapman just released this video for\u00a0the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/bigidea.com\/index.aspx\">Veggie Tales <\/a>video, <em>It&#8217;s a Meaningful Life<\/em>.\u00a0 And in this case, I agree with him.\u00a0 Especially as I&#8217;ve been thinking about my kids and the unique way God made each one of them.\u00a0 \u00a0Our kids are meant to be just whom God created them to be and it is amazing to watch them grow in that.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Psalm 139:13-14 (NIV)\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">For you created my inmost being;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 you knit me together in my mother&#8217;s womb.<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 your works are wonderful,<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I know that full well.<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been crazy about that phrase when used in the way of describing that my kids were &#8220;meant to be adopted by us&#8221;.\u00a0 No. \u00a0Instead I\u00a0try to remind\u00a0folks that while it did not catch God off guard, it was certainly not the ideal.\u00a0 That would be making too little of my kids&#8217; losses in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}