{"id":237,"date":"2004-03-20T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2004-03-20T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=237"},"modified":"2013-06-20T08:33:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:33:36","slug":"dear-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Dear John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, What goes through your little mind? We big people can only imagine. When your face wrinkles up, are you worried? When you smile, are you having a happy thought? When you sleep, do you dream? John, I want you to know you are loved. Your mother loves you in ways you&#8217;ll never understand, and you have a brother and sister that love you, too. The family you&#8217;re living with loves you, though we know you&#8217;ll only be with us a little while. And though I&#8217;m not your daddy, I love you, too. But I want to tell you who loves you most. Our Father in Heaven loves you perfectly. He has a special place in His heart for little fellas like you. He&#8217;s the one who made you and He has a great plan for your life. He put you all together while you were still inside your mommy, and I think He did a beautiful job. I&#8217;ll tell you, John, life on this earth is going to get a little more difficult than it is right now. I wish I could say things will always be pleasant, but you&#8217;ve entered a world that&#8217;s a little messed up. The truth is &#8211; our Father has an enemy who hates everything good. He roams around looking to make trouble and he&#8217;s made trouble for us all. But I don&#8217;t want you to worry because our Father has a Son who beat this bad guy and He promises to help us while we&#8217;re here. This Good Friend wants us to know this world is not our true home. You&#8217;re going to like it here in many ways. You&#8217;ll do a lot of fun things and you&#8217;ll see some beautiful places, but always remember&#8230; there&#8217;s something much better to come. Good night, John. Sweet dreams&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my Father&#8217;s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.&#8221; Thomas said to him, &#8220;Lord, we don&#8217;t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?&#8221; Jesus answered, &#8220;I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.&#8221; John 14:2-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey John, What goes through your little mind? We big people can only imagine. When your face wrinkles up, are you worried? When you smile, are you having a happy thought? When you sleep, do you dream? John, I want you to know you are loved. Your mother loves you in ways you&#8217;ll never understand, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airwoof.org\/journey\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}