{"id":588,"date":"2009-05-19T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=588"},"modified":"2009-05-19T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:12:00","slug":"will-the-real-you-please-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=588","title":{"rendered":"Will The Real You Please Stand Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of my biggest frustrations is people that try too hard. <\/p>\n

I suppose this is stemmed from insecurities. Nevertheless, I find this behavior annoying. An example of this are Christians who try too hard. <\/p>\n

I am picking on Christians simply because this was an experience that is fresh on my mind. No one expects families to be perfect. No one expects a mom or dad to be perfect. That includes God. He actually understands and accepts the imperfection in us.<\/p>\n

I love that. I don’t have to try hard to impress Him. He gets me. He understands that no one is harder on me than ME!<\/p>\n

Why pretend you are a engaged parent when we understand you are a workaholic? Why pretend to have perfect children when we all are going through parenting together and love the childishness that make children who they are?<\/p>\n

Why say “I was praying for you today?” When you barely have said hello? Weird? Petty? Probably.<\/p>\n

I just hate superficialness. Please just be real with me. I like you. Especially the real you. Please don’t pretend. I don’t know what to do with that. I spent too many years forced to pretend we were a happy family… growing up. I can’t do that.<\/p>\n

I am who I am. <\/p>\n

I am full of flaws. Just ask my oldest! But I am trying. I am really trying. I feel that if I live each day to the best I can… and some days even just to the tiniest of that… God gets it.<\/p>\n

So I am not looking for perfection. I am just looking for real. Please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my biggest frustrations is people that try too hard. I suppose this is stemmed from insecurities. Nevertheless, I find this behavior annoying. An example of this are Christians who try too hard. I am picking on Christians simply … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}