{"id":1155,"date":"2010-07-02T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2010-07-02T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T14:22:10","slug":"lessons-from-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/1155\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHE TEACHES YOU<br \/>\nShe\u2019s greater far, that little child, than you;<br \/>\nThe very child you teach, she teaches you.<br \/>\nYou teach her to be Christlike, but have you<br \/>\nForgotten she already is, far more than you?<br \/>\nYou teach her right from wrong, and yet it\u2019s she,<br \/>\nNot you, whose conscience is more clear and free.<br \/>\nYou teach her trust in God, but can\u2019t you see<br \/>\nThat it is you who lack trust more than she?<br \/>\nFor you find doubt and reason in your way<br \/>\nWhile she in simple faith believes straightway.<br \/>\nYou teach her to forgive, but don\u2019t you know<br \/>\nThat she forgives in half the time you do?<br \/>\nAnd she, when she forgives, at once forgets;<br \/>\nBut you? You struggle long with grudge and debts.<br \/>\nYou try to teach her love. You can\u2019t. You cry,<br \/>\n\u201cMy child, you are the teacher, and not I!\u201d<br \/>\nSo learn from her, be like her, you who teach.<br \/>\nYou must, Christ says, if heaven you would reach.<br \/>\n                                          &#8211; Ida Boyer Bontrager<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been making my way though a mothers devotional.  Most days it has a cheesy poem, but this one was an exception for me.  I changed all the words to &#8220;she&#8221; from &#8220;he&#8221; for my version.  But I found it to be a very meaningful poem.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1156\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1143-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_1143\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1143-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1143-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cutie Alice \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven&#8221;  Matt 18:4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHE TEACHES YOU She\u2019s greater far, that little child, than you; The very child you teach, she teaches you. You teach her to be Christlike, but have you Forgotten she already is, far more than you? You teach her right from wrong, and yet it\u2019s she, Not you, whose conscience is more clear and free. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}