{"id":924,"date":"2009-11-08T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T23:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"170818376"},"modified":"2009-11-08T18:18:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T23:18:03","slug":"today-the-gathering-my-family-tree-gave-me-splinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-my-family-tree-gave-me-splinters\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering – “My Family Tree Gave Me Splinters”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Today @ The Gathering<\/a> We continued our current series, \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate\u201d with installment number 3, \u201cMy Family Tree Gave Me Splinters.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the most difficult realities new face in life is that it seems as if the very people at the core of our lives, those who we should be able to trust with our well-being are sometimes the first ones who disappoint us.<\/p>\n It is true that the closer you let a person into your life, the more they are able to hurt you, because the closer they are to you, the more you open up to them.<\/p>\n We gave three reasons today why family is so hard to get right.<\/p>\n We talked about the four ways in which we tend to pass on our hurt and wounded-ness to our children.<\/p>\n The challenge is to break that cycle, to free yourself from the bondage of the past, from the heritage that you received that you did nothing to create.\u00a0 And while it\u2019s not just as simple as these three things, there\u2019s something that you can start today to break the bondage of a bad heritage.<\/p>\n Your family tree may have given you splinters.\u00a0 You may be living today with deep disappointments, wounds and dysfunctions that were handed down by your family.\u00a0 But you can break that cycle right now by re-centering your life; not with your family and their dysfunction, but with God, His goodness, and His grace that is extended to you in this moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today @ The Gathering We continued our current series, \u201cThey Promised Me Chocolate\u201d with installment number 3, \u201cMy Family Tree Gave Me Splinters.\u201d One of the most difficult realities new face in life is that it seems as if the very people at the core of our lives, those who we should be able to … Continue reading “Today @ The Gathering – “My Family Tree Gave Me Splinters””<\/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":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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