{"id":1220,"date":"2010-03-02T06:23:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T12:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loveisanorientation.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2012-12-17T00:46:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T06:46:46","slug":"one-of-the-most-humbling-things-written-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/loveisanorientation\/2010\/03\/one-of-the-most-humbling-things-written-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the Most Humbling Things Written About Me"},"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>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisheuertz.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chris Heuertz<\/a> recently wrote something for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandleadership.duke.edu\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Divinity Faith and Leadership<\/a>. You can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithandleadership.duke.edu\/blog\/02-28-2010\/christopher-l-heuertz-prayer-muscle-memory-and-consent\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0In it, Chris is talking about me, and in reading it, it really touched my soul. I committed my life to playing baseball (I played Division I in college) and improving my abilities through the hard work that no one knew I did. This is the first time it has ever been made public. I had no idea Chris was writing this.\u00a0And for it to be done in such a humbling way by Chris tying it into a deep spiritual lesson, it means more to me than I can express.<\/p>\n<p>Much love.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarinfoundation.org\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.themarinfoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Chris Heuertz recently wrote something for Duke Divinity Faith and Leadership. 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