{"id":729,"date":"2011-01-26T22:34:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T04:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/?p=729"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:46:16","slug":"you-are-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/you-are-more\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwtcwQwgdsA?rel=0&amp;hd=1\" height=\"450\" width=\"680\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>In my morning reading<\/strong>, yesterday, I came across a sentiment by &#8220;The Rebbe,&#8221; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. In his typical hard-hitting and leaving plenty of room for thought style, the Rebbe said this&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you would realize who you really are, you wouldn&#8217;t be so disappointed with yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I got so much personal mileage out of the reading that I posted it on my Facebook and Twitter accounts, that&#8217;s when the misunderstanding began. My dear friend, Kathy, responded with a lighthearted &#8220;Are you talking about me?&#8221; quip, then I shot back a curt &#8220;Yes&#8221;&#8230; and the ensuing conversation, I&#8217;m afraid, just got increasingly mis-communicated.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I wasn&#8217;t trying to dig at Kathy. I love her. She&#8217;s been my buddy since grade school.<\/p>\n<p>To me, the Rebbe&#8217;s admonishment can be (and maybe should be) understood in two ways: First, that I am a scoundrel by birth (welcome to the human race) and it is not amazing when I &#8220;do the wrong thing.&#8221; What is amazing is that I sometimes get it right.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a second way to take the Rebbe&#8217;s remark: I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I am a son of the Creator, placed in this world so that I might learn and grow. My many mistakes are but the refining of gold. I am priceless to the Father.<\/p>\n<p>So, tonight I was waiting for my wife and daughter, just sitting in the truck listening to the radio&#8230; when I heard this song. And it reminded me of my conversation with Kathy. And it reminded me of my own inability to grasp who I am. And it reminded me of the Father&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy&#8230; please don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m talking about you again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my morning reading, yesterday, I came across a sentiment by &#8220;The Rebbe,&#8221; Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. In his typical hard-hitting and leaving plenty of room for thought style, the Rebbe said this&#8230; If you would realize who you really are, you wouldn&#8217;t be so disappointed with yourself. I got so much personal mileage out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roadturn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}