{"id":653,"date":"2012-12-20T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/?p=653"},"modified":"2013-01-03T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T17:38:22","slug":"inspirations-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Inspirations Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Have you ever been caught off guard by a song or a quote, maybe a story from a friend or passage in a book. You are carrying on your normal day to day business and a simple statement turns your world around. That is inspiration. It is so easy to become consumed with the mindless routine of your day. You wake up, do the same workout, eat the same breakfast, and go to work to do the same things, then come home and get ready to do it all over again. It is enough to make anyone numb to the vibrance of \u00a0God and the world around us. Sometimes our minds are spinning with too many things to stop and think about one simple and beautiful truth.<\/p>\n

But inspiration comes in many forms. It makes you swallow hard and choke on truth. It cuts deep through the numbness of life and shows you something deeper, something pure, something holy. It’s how I feel when I read Kisses From Katie, a story about a teenage girl who leaves everything in America to devote her life to Ugandan orphans. And it’s how I felt today when I heard the words of an old song on the radio. It’s a moving song about darkness and despair and a woman’s refusal to give in to it, but instead to help others with the eyes, the hands, the heart of God. See lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n

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What inspires you? Maybe it’s a person? Tell me about your moment of awakening and inspiration.<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you ever been caught off guard by a song or a quote, maybe a story from a friend or passage in a book. You are carrying on your normal day to day business and a simple statement turns your world around. That is inspiration. It is so easy to become consumed with the mindless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-insights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christianyogastudio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}