{"id":562,"date":"2012-11-10T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisrestlesspilgrim.wordpress.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:59:13","slug":"im-not-who-i-was-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/10\/im-not-who-i-was-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff I&#8217;ve Learned: I&#8217;m not who I was"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/qrGfA6y9fNI\/mqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Something happened recently which gave me pause for thought.<\/p>\n<p>A situation arose which was very similar to something which happened to me about ten years ago. It was a situation which previously brought out the worst parts of my character.\u00a0However, this time around, I reacted completely differently. I didn&#8217;t fall into my previous patterns of behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>All this made me realize that I&#8217;m not who I once was.\u00a0I have changed.\u00a0Wounds have healed.\u00a0I have grown.\u00a0Don&#8217;t worry though, there&#8217;s still room\u00a0for a little more improvement&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Later that day it got me thinking about how we sometimes view ourselves. I very often still think of myself as that awkward thirteen year old kid at school. Other times I think I&#8217;m still the same awkward twenty-something who doesn&#8217;t have a clue who he really is. But the truth is that I&#8217;m none of these people. I&#8217;m not who I was. It is\u00a0those events of life and my journey with the Lord which have made me who I am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrGfA6y9fNI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something happened recently which gave me pause for thought. A situation arose which was very similar to something which happened to me about ten years ago. It was a situation which previously brought out the worst parts of my character.\u00a0However, this time around, I reacted completely differently. I didn&#8217;t fall into my previous patterns of behaviour. All this made me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[244,369,2969,293],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-brandon-heath","tag-change","tag-featured","tag-growth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44170,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/44170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}