{"id":142,"date":"2016-01-26T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T16:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2016-01-26T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T16:16:55","slug":"open-yourself-to-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Open yourself to possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/?attachment_id=143\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dwell-in-possibility-739x1024.jpg?fit=739%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"739,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"dwell-in-possibility-739&amp;#215;1024\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dwell-in-possibility-739x1024.jpg?fit=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dwell-in-possibility-739x1024.jpg?fit=739%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dwell-in-possibility-739x1024.jpg?resize=217%2C300\" alt=\"dwell-in-possibility-739x1024\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dwell-in-possibility-739x1024.jpg?resize=217%2C300&amp;ssl=1 217w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.becominglisa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/dwell-in-possibility-739x1024.jpg?resize=739%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 739w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>January 26, 2016<\/p>\n<p>With God, anything is possible. \u00a0How open are you to whatever it is that God has for you? \u00a0Do you in your mind and in your heart limit God? \u00a0Are you willing to consider that you let your hurts from your past limit what you can do in the future? \u00a0Do you think that something from your past is too &#8220;bad&#8221; or too &#8220;big&#8221; for God to fully 100% tee-totally completely redeem?<\/p>\n<p>I only ask because at one point in my life &#8211; That is exactly what I believed. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t think anything was possible &#8211; I was too broken and too messed up to ever have any kind of life. \u00a0Each day was filled with tormented existence. \u00a0But God!<\/p>\n<p>Those two words can change everything &#8230;. but God is way bigger\u00a0than our minds can ever imagine. \u00a0He loves you. \u00a0He sent His Son to die for you. \u00a0His Son rose from the dead 3 days later. \u00a0Because of the physical death of Jesus Christ &#8211; we can now stand holy and blameless before god without a single fault! (Colossians 1:22) That is just part of what happens when we believe and accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it &#8230;. God can use anything to get your attention. \u00a0 For me, one of the things He used was a poem touting the blessing of poetry vs prose &#8230; yet when I read it &#8211; He opened my heart to the possibility of what He could do in and through me &#8230;. something to consider. \u00a0Seriously &#8211; open yourself to possibility!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>I dwell in Possibility<\/em> by Emily Dickinson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"poem\" class=\"tab-content active\">\n<div class=\"poem\">\n<div>I dwell in Possibility \u2013<\/div>\n<div>A fairer House than Prose \u2013<\/div>\n<div>More numerous of Windows \u2013<\/div>\n<div>Superior \u2013 for Doors \u2013<\/div>\n<div>Of Chambers as the Cedars \u2013<\/div>\n<div>Impregnable of eye \u2013<\/div>\n<div>And for an everlasting Roof<\/div>\n<div>The Gambrels of the Sky \u2013<\/div>\n<div>Of Visitors \u2013 the fairest \u2013<\/div>\n<div>For Occupation \u2013 This \u2013<\/div>\n<div>The spreading wide my narrow Hands<\/div>\n<div>To gather Paradise \u2013<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 26, 2016 With God, anything is possible. \u00a0How open are you to whatever it is that God has for you? \u00a0Do you in your mind and in your heart limit God? \u00a0Are you willing to consider that you let your hurts from your past limit what you can do in the future? \u00a0Do you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/?p=142\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-ponderings","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p781wf-2i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becominglisa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}