{"id":584,"date":"2007-10-05T22:12:32","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T06:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/the-best-and-the-worst\/"},"modified":"2007-10-06T10:23:37","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T18:23:37","slug":"the-best-and-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/the-best-and-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"The best and the worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids bring out the best and the worst in me.<\/p>\n<p>I love kids &#8211; when they are cute, sweet, cuddly, behaving well,  and doing what I tell them to do.<\/p>\n<p>But today, I had to yell at some 8th graders. I lost it. They did not respond to any act of kindness and I had to resort to threats. I honestly couldn&#8217;t stand those boys! Afterwards I felt bad about my behavior. I don&#8217;t like myself very much when an ugly side of me is displayed openly.<\/p>\n<p>I usually think I am a nice, reasonable person. I&#8217;m not a murderer. I am not a prostitute. I am not a drunkard, adulterer, nor child molester. It would be easy for me to become a Pharisee and think that my own righteousness can get me into heaven.<\/p>\n<p>While I certainly don&#8217;t like to be faced with my own weaknesses, it is a good thing that God shows them to me.  When the hatred in me was expressed to those kids, it reminds me that I am just a sinner, like everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>I am brought once again to my knees to the cross of Christ, and I appreciate the grace and mercy that he extends to a sinner like me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids bring out the best and the worst in me. I love kids &#8211; when they are cute, sweet, cuddly, behaving well, and doing what I tell them to do. But today, I had to yell at some 8th graders. I lost it. They did not respond to any act of kindness and I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}