{"id":75,"date":"2005-03-04T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T19:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2005-03-04T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2005-03-04T19:59:36","slug":"bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/04\/bittersweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot received an acceptance on Wednesday into the USC Resident Honors Program. USC selects 30 high school juniors to start as college freshmen without finishing high school. I am very proud of him! But&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Am I ready to let go??? If he decides to go, I have 6 months to prepare him. Academically, emotionally, physically I don&#8217;t worry about him. But is he ready for the spiritual attacks that he will surely face? He will be learning from professors and being influenced by peers whose ethics, morals, and spiritual foundations are opposed to what he&#8217;s been used to. They will aggressively challenge Christian beliefs more so than they do here in relatively conservative suburban Walnut. Have I done enough to prepare him?<\/p>\n<p>I read this verse as I was doing my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsfinternational.org\/\">BSF lesson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Now it is my God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come&#8221; 2Corinthians 1:21-22 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is not me, but God whose Spirit is in Elliot, who will make him stand firm in his faith in Christ. God can be trusted to do His work.  I am so glad! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elliot received an acceptance on Wednesday into the USC Resident Honors Program. USC selects 30 high school juniors to start as college freshmen without finishing high school. I am very proud of him! But&#8230; Am I ready to let go??? If he decides to go, I have 6 months to prepare him. Academically, emotionally, physically [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}