{"id":1037,"date":"2024-01-02T23:37:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2024-01-02T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:37:56","slug":"a-special-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/a-special-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While vacationing in Florida, every morning my wife and I like to walk the board walk end to end for exercise. I have begun to notice something, I think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mind has gone to a place whereas, as I\u2019m walking, with my cross out, and on my chest, occasionally different people will see and lock their eyes on my cross. I sense some are comforted by it. I also sense some are not. Some of the others don\u2019t even notice it. I can\u2019t help but get this feeling that my cross is a reminder to some about themselves and how they are living. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"476\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3.png 853w, https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-3-768x429.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 853px) 100vw, 853px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Younger teenager\u2019s male and female focus on my cross, but they look suddenly less than happy, or feeling some kind of uncomfortableness. I have imagined that perhaps they are the one\u2019s that know Christ to an extend that they are on the hook and have entered the sanctification stage in their relationship whereas their accountability for the lifestyle is more intense than others.<br \/>I feel like to some my cross is causing other to have a voice, \u201cHey, I\u2019m on vacation, don\u2019t think about right and wrong, lets just have more fun\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Perhaps my thoughts are skewed in relation to my own life and what I need to do, and I\u2019m projecting. Either way, there is a human vibe I\u2019m getting I never saw or felt before. Something is up. Something is different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special purpose<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While vacationing in Florida, every morning my wife and I like to walk the board walk end to end for exercise. I have begun to notice something, I think. My mind has gone to a place whereas, as I\u2019m walking, with my cross out, and on my chest, occasionally different people will see and lock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelagee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}