{"id":283,"date":"2012-01-14T22:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/39425124-81c1-4ff8-9348-9a2266764f06"},"modified":"2012-01-14T22:30:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T22:30:27","slug":"loving-your-neighbor-as-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Loving Your Neighbor As Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><font style=\"line-height: 115%; font-size: 14pt; \"><font face=\"Calibri\">Jesus said to the young man, \u201cLove your neighbor as you love yourself.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d asked the young man, \u201cisn\u2019t loving yourself vain?\u201d&nbsp; Jesus smiled and said, \u201cVain? No child, loving yourself is not vain, it is a commandment.&nbsp; The Creator made you\u2014you are a child of the Divine\u2014to love yourself is to love the gift you\u2019ve been given\u2014the gift of who you are.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cBut how do you do that?\u201d the young man asked.&nbsp; \u201cShine,\u201d said Jesus.&nbsp; \u201cShine like the sun.&nbsp; Be the real you.&nbsp; Live the life you were created to live.&nbsp; Live your dreams.&nbsp; Then you will be loving yourself.&nbsp; And,\u201d Jesus continued before the young man could interject, \u201cwhen you are living the life you were created to live you will automatically be loving your neighbor as well.&nbsp; Shining your light reflects the Creator\u2019s light, my light, your light, your neighbor\u2019s light.&nbsp; We all shine a little brighter when you love yourself enough to be yourself, when you love yourself enough to shine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\" align=\"center\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"WIDTH: 259px; HEIGHT: 194px\" id=\"rg_hi\" class=\"rg_hi\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQUDUVUJnVUPukG7arjT_5f-pvhV5SdsIfVXr2JdZxYgLfb6QcY\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" data-height=\"194\" data-width=\"259\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Copyright Joseph Anthony of the Wonder Child Blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus said to the young man, \u201cLove your neighbor as you love yourself.\u201d&nbsp; \u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d asked the young man, \u201cisn\u2019t loving yourself vain?\u201d&nbsp; Jesus smiled and said, \u201cVain? No child, loving yourself is not vain, it is a commandment.&nbsp; The Creator made you\u2014you are a child of the Divine\u2014to love yourself is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewonderchildblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}