{"id":24,"date":"2011-03-20T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:20:30","slug":"where-has-the-time-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Where has the time gone?  :-\/"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have all of these thoughts just floating around in my head&#8230;floating over and over and over again becuase I can&#8217;t ever seem to find the time to log on here and type them out.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I started this blog in the first place, so that I could express myself as I wanted and then feel better mentally that I had gotten things off my chest &#8211; or at least that was the idea.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll tell you in once sentence what keeps me from blabbering on a regular basis&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I have a child.<\/p>\n<p>There, that&#8217;s it.\u00a0 I still have both hands and both arms and I can still see the screen and type &#8211;\u00a0but that&#8217;s where my time has gone.\u00a0 Every time I get a free moment, my brain is crowded with thoughts of things that I should be doing &#8211; things other than taking a moment to type the stress away &#8211; laundry, dishes, cleaning, cooking&#8230;..etc.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>My life has changed in so many ways.\u00a0 Mostly for the better.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure that the path I was on before was a good one.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard, or should I say it&#8217;s harder than the life I had before I had a long term relationship and a child.\u00a0 Being a mother is HARD.\u00a0 To me, there is nothing harder in life than raising a child.\u00a0 But I guess I need to keep telling myself that mothers have been doing it for a long, long, time (my mother did it!) so I am sure that I can get through it too.<\/p>\n<p>My question today is, how do you know if you&#8217;re saved?\u00a0 I&#8217;m speaking on religion, which maybe is too much of an opinionated topic, but I can&#8217;t seem to get it off my mind.\u00a0 Although, in this moment, right now, I think I have just answered my own question.\u00a0 I mean, if I have to ask it then I must not be saved, right??\u00a0 Is that how that works?\u00a0 My first introduction to religion was Quakerism.\u00a0\u00a0 And for many years thereafter that was the only religion that I knew.\u00a0 Only recently have I been visiting other religions to see what else is out there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now&#8230;. there is sooooo much more that I need to say, but I dont&#8217; want to blow the laptop up.\u00a0 I am going to make it my mission to try and log on at least once a week, if not more to express myself&#8230; becuase I think it&#8217;s sooo important to BE YOURSELF.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Peace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have all of these thoughts just floating around in my head&#8230;floating over and over and over again becuase I can&#8217;t ever seem to find the time to log on here and type them out.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I started this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/?p=24\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.beyourself.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}