{"id":50,"date":"2016-11-13T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T08:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskrypt.co.ke\/wordpress\/?p=50"},"modified":"2016-11-13T08:25:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T08:25:41","slug":"keeping-the-faith-answered-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/2016\/11\/13\/keeping-the-faith-answered-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Answered Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, I have been meaning to start writing this blog for a while. It\u2019s not that I lacked content or anything, it\u2019s just logistics. I\u2019m trying to buy a laptop.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have spent the last 3-4 years of my life praying for one and waiting and hoping\u2026literally, that one day I\u2019m going to answer the door and it\u2019s going to be some friendly guy with a borderline creepy cheerful smile, you know, like the delivery guys in old movies, holding out a box with a state of the art laptop in it. The story would be that I won it, or some billionaire somewhere was feeling generous. <\/span>
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I should be embarrassed. But honestly, I\u2019m beyond that level at this point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe you can imagine my consternation when I realize that God doesn\u2019t work like that. I use the word \u201cconsternation\u201d because I honestly, and I really should have known this, had an epiphany. It hit me like a lightning bolt that had me slapping my forehead in the middle of the street one afternoon on my way to school. It\u2019s not like he gave me no indication what I should have been going towards this end. My sisters prayed for their own too, but they went out and went after what they wanted. And they got what they were praying for in various ways. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is the part where I\u2019m going to stop talking. I usually feel this in waves. The horror of the time lost. Lost because I just didn\u2019t understand it sooner. It\u2019s depressing. <\/span><\/p>\n

So now, I still don\u2019t have it yet, but I am very close, and I have been having quite a time of realizing how many other things, not just this laptop thing, I could have just gotten off my ass and gotten. This habit of sitting on my haunches and literally waiting for things to fall out of the sky to me needs to go. But knowing me, that\u2019s easier said than done.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I have been meaning to start writing this blog for a while. It\u2019s not that I lacked content or anything, it\u2019s just logistics. I\u2019m trying to buy a laptop. I have spent the last 3-4 years of my life praying for one and waiting and hoping\u2026literally, that one day I\u2019m going to answer the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa77RY-O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}