{"id":9893,"date":"2025-12-25T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9893"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:34:55","slug":"accustom-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=9893","title":{"rendered":"Accustom Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20181221_155647-e1553289329351.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20181221_155647-e1553289329351-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5294\" width=\"392\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20181221_155647-e1553289329351-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20181221_155647-e1553289329351-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  Thank you Lord for this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  Amen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from Francois De La Mothe Fenelon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice.  Abide in peace in the presence of God, who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and who permits them.  Be content with doing with calmness the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way. Matthew 22:22 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: Thank you Lord for this day. Prodigal: Amen! This is from Francois De La Mothe Fenelon Accustom yourself to unreasonableness and injustice. Abide in peace in the presence of God, who sees all these evils more clearly than you do, and who permits them. 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