{"id":1075,"date":"2011-12-29T11:34:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatshesaid\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2011-12-29T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T16:35:28","slug":"what-im-leaving-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatshesaid\/2011\/12\/what-im-leaving-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m leaving behind"},"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>A friend of mine just posted this quote from on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is what I most want to remember in the coming year: My job is to please God. \u00a0And when I get out of the way and just follow His suggestions, it\u2019s not nearly as difficult as one would expect. \u00a0The doing part is (relatively) easy\u2026it\u2019s the <em>angsting <\/em>about what to do (<em>should I\/shouldn\u2019t I, will they\/won\u2019t they, what if\u2026?<\/em>)\u00a0that\u2019s tough. \u00a0And God doesn\u2019t call me to angst. \u00a0So I\u2019m setting that down here, on this third-to last day of 2011.<\/p>\n<p>What do you want to leave behind with God as you start the new year?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine just posted this quote from on Twitter: \u201cI don\u2019t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.\u201d This is what I most want to remember in the coming year: My job is to please God. \u00a0And when I get out of the way and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,135,134,106],"class_list":["post-1075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angst","tag-bill-cosby","tag-people-pleasing","tag-trish-ryan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What I&#039;m leaving behind<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A friend of mine just posted this quote from on Twitter: &quot;I don&#039;t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.&quot; 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