{"id":1207,"date":"2016-04-28T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2016-04-28T00:05:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:05:27","slug":"in-right-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/in-right-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"In right perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"

Children never fails to amaze me. My older girl has been teaching me many life lessons. One of the valuable lesson she taught me was on her favorite story David vs Goliath.<\/p>\n

She taught me that it was not David’s strength or faith that helped him to defeat Goliath. But it was God that helped David so that the stone hit Goliath’s forehead.<\/p>\n

What a lesson. It’s nothing of David, but everything of God. It was God who won against Goliath, not David. David just God’s instrument to defeat Goliath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Children never fails to amaze me. My older girl has been teaching me many life lessons. One of the valuable lesson she taught me was on her favorite story David vs Goliath. 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