{"id":2155,"date":"2011-12-29T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2011-12-29T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T00:38:18","slug":"on-mother-theresa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/2155\/","title":{"rendered":"On Mother Theresa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Irresistible-Revolution-Living-Ordinary-Radical\/dp\/0310266300\">Irresistible Revolution<\/a>, by Shane Claiborne, I have had a new fascination with an old hero.  Claiborne actually worked aside Mother Theresa and I love the stories he recalls of her (Have you read this book? You MUST!) .  An Amazing woman and true servant of God. Truly inspiring to this 32 year old Jill Holt.  <\/p>\n<p>Today my book request came in at the library.  Loved this biography.  Any book written on a 3rd grade reading level is a book for me!  Any book that a mother can read through while her daughter plays trains at the library gets an A+!  Loved learning about her life, and had tears in my library eyes reading the following profound quote&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/61lwv8DWh7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/61lwv8DWh7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"61lwv8DWh7L._SL500_AA300_\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/61lwv8DWh7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/61lwv8DWh7L._SL500_AA300_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If People are proud and unreasonable, misguided and selfish,<br \/>\nLove them anyway.<br \/>\nIf you are kind, and people say that you do it for selfish reasons,<br \/>\nBe kind anyway.<br \/>\nIf you succeed, but find only untrue friends and true enemies,<br \/>\nSucceed anyway.<br \/>\nIf the good deeds you do today are forgotten tomorrow,<br \/>\nDo good deeds anyway.<br \/>\nIf being truthful and saying what you believe hurts you,<br \/>\ntell the truth anyway.<br \/>\nIf things you spent years building are destroyed overnight,<br \/>\nBuild anyway.<br \/>\nIf you help those in need from the goodness of your heart, and they attack you,<br \/>\nHelp anyway.<br \/>\nIf you give the world the best you have, and you are kicked in the teeth<br \/>\nGive the world the best you have anyway.<br \/>\n &#8211; Mother Theresa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since reading Irresistible Revolution, by Shane Claiborne, I have had a new fascination with an old hero. Claiborne actually worked aside Mother Theresa and I love the stories he recalls of her (Have you read this book? You MUST!) . An Amazing woman and true servant of God. Truly inspiring to this 32 year [&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-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","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=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}