{"id":254,"date":"2013-03-23T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dailyreflections\/?p=254"},"modified":"2013-02-20T11:16:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T16:16:35","slug":"a-fathers-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/dailyreflections\/2013\/03\/a-fathers-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 23: A Father&#8217;s Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As a child, Ann Curry, the NBC television journalist, would ask her father what she should be when she grew up.\u00a0 His answer was always the same: \u201cWhatever you do, do something that is of some service to somebody else, because if you do, you\u2019ll know that it mattered that you were born.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That message, Curry admits, propelled her into a life of traveling the world, seeing people in great need with her own eyes\u2014and doing something to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I didn\u2019t realize until much later was that my father had given me the keys to happiness,\u201d she explains.\u00a0 \u201cIn the rush and the hustle and bustle of our lives, we often forget that those simple acts of giving can give our own lives the most value, the most comfort and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Who is your \u201cneighbor in need\u201d this day?\u00a0 How will you help?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another.\u00a0 (1 Peter 4:10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Slow me down, Lord.\u00a0 Help me to see Your way to make a difference. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, Ann Curry, the NBC television journalist, would ask her father what she 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