{"id":2050,"date":"2017-01-09T13:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T13:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2017-01-09T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T02:29:10","slug":"something-is-never-quite-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=2050","title":{"rendered":"Something is Never Quite Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/05-21-16-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/05-21-16-001-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"05-21-16 001\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/05-21-16-001-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/05-21-16-001-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 What are you looking up?<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 Reading the news, just so much to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 Yes, I believe focusing too much on the bad will lead us to a lot of worry.<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 What should I do then?<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 I have something that I read that might be helpful to you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simple Faith by Charles Swindoll<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>It has been my observation that worries are basically dissatisfied people.\u00a0 Something is never quite right.\u00a0 When one thing is fixed, something else is never quite right.\u00a0 Contentment with the way things are, even knowing that God could change them if He wished, is a mind-set that is foreign to the worrier.\u00a0 What is \u00a0not enjoyed because of what could be.\u00a0 Whoever chooses to live like that should be ready for a lifetime of dissatisfaction.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What should I focus on today Lord?\u00a0 Well of course I should look to you!\u00a0 How about when the sad news of the world comes to my ears and makes my heart mourn?\u00a0 Well then I know that you first mourned for sin before I was born.\u00a0 How about when suffering comes my way because I am speaking your truths?\u00a0 Well then how could I forget you suffered more than I have.\u00a0 So then I guess I am left with looking at you Lord and being content that you are all I need!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Luke 15:4-5<\/p>\n<p>What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Me:\u00a0 What are you looking up? 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