{"id":1800,"date":"2015-01-15T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/take-leap-of-fai-3\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:02:12","slug":"take-leap-of-fai-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1800","title":{"rendered":"Take the Leap of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AnnasFaithJump-1024x975.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/AnnasFaithJump-1024x975.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Day 14 of Photo Inspirations.<br \/>\nToday I went to see my little 18-month old great neice who is a &#8220;regular&#8221; at my mother-in-law&#8217;s every Monday. &nbsp;I took this photo of her and her Gamma, my sister-in-law. &nbsp;This little angel girl loves climbing and using her hands and body to learn all about this world around her. &nbsp;She is completely unburdened by responsibilities, time and where to get her next meal. &nbsp; She lives in a world of wonder, awe and joy. &nbsp;Okay &#8212; so I&#8217;m a little biased, but I think this little angel girl is amazing and is super fearless. &nbsp;You can tell in these photos that she is so secure in knowing that her Gamma will catch her.<\/p>\n<p>She was performing for me today &#8212; yes, she is also quite the entertainer. &nbsp;When I saw how absolutely confident she was in climbing the stool (apparatus &#8212; LOL) and jumping into her Gamma&#8217;s arms, I thought about that total confidence she had in the one who loves her so much. <\/p>\n<p>Along the way, it is just expected that she will lose that sense of security and confidence. But, she doesn&#8217;t have to &#8212; and neither do our children. &nbsp;It&#8217;s up to you and me to be truly fearless leaders, because we have total confidence in the ONE Who is always there to lead, guide and protect us. &nbsp;And, one of the most effective ways of teaching our kids is to lead by example. Our children look up to us and mimic the behaviors they see in us &#8212; their parents and grandparents. &nbsp;If they see us happy, comfortable and at peace, they will have a sense of security, confidence and peace. <\/p>\n<p>If &nbsp;we live our lives fearless, our kids will see that and it will serve as a powerful lesson for the people they will become. &nbsp; It&#8217;s up to us to be sure we live it wherever we go &#8212; at work, at home, at their school &#8212; and when they see the confidence we exude, they&#8217;ll follow our lead.<\/p>\n<p>And, by the way, in case you, yourself, aren&#8217;t that fearless leader today, &nbsp;at least strive to raise fearless kids, because in the process, you will perfect and refine your own journey toward fearlessness. &nbsp;This job of parenting is as much about our growth as much as it is for our children. &nbsp;As we teach, we learn. &nbsp;And there&#8217;s no richer or rewarding path than to be fearless ourselves. &nbsp;So, let&#8217;s go ahead and mount that apparatus or circumstance or situation&#8230;..and TAKE A LEAP of faith.<br \/>\n#LeapOfFaith #Fearless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 14 of Photo Inspirations. Today I went to see my little 18-month old great neice who is a &#8220;regular&#8221; at my mother-in-law&#8217;s every Monday. &nbsp;I took this photo of her and her Gamma, my sister-in-law. &nbsp;This little angel girl loves climbing and using her hands and body to learn all about this world around&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10851,64,3847,2242,10852,6801,10853],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angel-girl","tag-entertainer","tag-fearless","tag-leap-of-faith","tag-performing","tag-photo-inspiration","tag-world-of-wonder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3224,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/3224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}