{"id":4119,"date":"2019-07-22T08:53:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2019-07-16T10:52:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:52:40","slug":"a-complex-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=4119","title":{"rendered":"A Complex Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20161227_155627-e1529524593563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2426\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20161227_155627-e1529524593563-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20161227_155627-e1529524593563-169x300.jpg 169w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20161227_155627-e1529524593563-768x1365.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/20161227_155627-e1529524593563-576x1024.jpg 576w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t look like much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Prodigal:\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter what it looks like, it is good here.<\/p>\n<p>Me:\u00a0 I agree, God values a lot because He sees the truth.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the book:\u00a0 So Long Insecurity by Beth Moore<\/p>\n<p>You can hurt my feelings, but you cannot have my security.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t let you.\u00a0 It&#8217;s mine to keep.\u00a0 You cannot have it.<\/p>\n<p>You can criticize me and even be right about what I did wrong, but you do not<\/p>\n<p>get to damage my security.\u00a0 It&#8217;s mine to keep.\u00a0 You cannot have it.<\/p>\n<p>You might have embarrassed me, but I refuse to let it fall on me<\/p>\n<p>so heavily that it smothers my security.\u00a0 It&#8217;s mine to keep.<\/p>\n<p>You cannot have it.<\/p>\n<p>You may be so intimidating and threatening that I feel I have to hand a lot of things to you,<\/p>\n<p>but I refuse to hand over my security.\u00a0 Who are you doesn&#8217;t get to dwarf who I am.<\/p>\n<p>My security is mine to keep.\u00a0 You cannot have it.<\/p>\n<p>Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of strength:\u00a0 let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothes with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.<\/p>\n<p>2 Chronicles 6:41<\/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>Me:\u00a0 This doesn&#8217;t look like much&#8230; Prodigal:\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t matter what it looks like, it is good here. 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