{"id":554,"date":"2011-06-22T16:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=554"},"modified":"2011-06-24T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:15:25","slug":"working-with-here-i-am-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Working with “Here I am” textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rodrigo<\/a>I\u2019ve always behaved badly since I was very young.\u00a0 My parents live in the countryside and attend to their fields.\u00a0 I was left to myself; there was no one to see what I did, no one to care for me, and no one to help me.\u00a0 I felt lonely and scared, but as I grew older I became angry.\u00a0 I wanted to be someone, I wanted people to pay attention to me, and was willing to do whatever it took.
\nI soon discovered that if I did bad things I got way more attention than when I did the right thing, so it became my life style and I ended up doing whatever I felt like doing.\u00a0 My peers wanted to hang with me, my teachers didn\u2019t know how to handle me and my parents were gone; it was great.\u00a0 However, when I was home by myself I still felt lonely and left out.
\nOne day my teacher brought new textbooks to the classroom, called \u201cHere I am.\u201d\u00a0 The books focused on why we do things, what is the purpose of each and every subject, where are we headed; things I never really thought about.\u00a0 My teacher taught us about the purpose of life. She went on to tell us that God had something unique for each of us to do, something others could not do and that He constantly was with us to help us do so.\u00a0 She told us He had created us and prepared us to be great and influence others around us to be great.
\nI suddenly understood I had value to God.\u00a0 He made me because He needs me and that He\u2019s ready to help me, whenever I need Him.\u00a0 That was appealing.\u00a0 I realized that good conduct; even if it doesn\u2019t get me the attention from others it does get God\u2019s attention, since He\u2019s with me all the time.\u00a0 I realized that my good behavior would influence those around me, inspiring them to follow my example.\u00a0 What I learned that day made me happy and grateful to God.\u00a0 Each new topic of the book takes me further down a good way.\u00a0 I feel that I belong and have destiny.\u00a0 Thank you for telling me the good news that Jesus loves me!<\/p>\n

Rodrigo Sanchez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always behaved badly since I was very young.\u00a0 My parents live in the countryside and attend to their fields.\u00a0 I was left to myself; there was no one to see what I did, no one to care for me, and no one to help me.\u00a0 I felt lonely and scared, but as I grew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}