{"id":3555,"date":"2011-10-28T07:31:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T07:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2011-10-29T03:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T03:20:17","slug":"i-want-to-make-my-father-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"I want to make my Father proud……."},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s 3:00 a.m., New York City, Marriott Maquis, room 3917. \u00a0I went to bed at 9:30 pretty tired, woke up at 2:00 a.m. \u00a0Wired, excited about Friday, wait a minute it’s already Friday. \u00a0I worked on the blog (Cheeseburgers in Paradise), \u00a0for about an hour, went back to bed, God said, “Get back up, I’ve got something I want you to write down and share! \u00a0For those of you that don’t come here often or just started reading this blog, I didn’t actually here a voice, but in my spirit it was clear, what He was telling me to do, \u00a0was not just for me. \u00a0I don’t know who this is for, but I’m sure He does, so here goes….<\/p>\n

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How do you want to be remembered? \u00a0I’ve not spent a lot of time thinking about that, but honestly, when a friend leaves us, and more of mine are starting to do just that, I do think about this. \u00a0My earthly father, William Pelle Fortney, told me many years ago, “No matter what you accomplish, or how much money you make, if you leave this earth without integrity and honesty, you’ve failed!” \u00a0 After \u00a0years of being a Christian, and reading the scripture, I’ve come to the conclusion that God tells us the same thing, and this; \u00a0(this is God speaking),<\/p>\n

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” I love you, I care about everything in your life. \u00a0 I know you are imperfect, \u00a0but I still love you. \u00a0I sent my only Son to die for you, \u00a0so that you might be forgiven for all your sins. \u00a0I want you to trust me with your life, I want you to find comfort, and peace in my strong arms. \u00a0I know you want to do it all yourself, but my dear child, you can’t, but I can help you to be all I want you to be, \u00a0 You do not have the wisdom, strength, or ability to succeed, but \u00a0I am standing at your door knocking, please let me in to your heart!”<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don’t know why this came to me in the early morning hours, I do know I want my earthly father and my Heavenly Father to both be proud of me, I don’t want to disappoint either one. \u00a0I know I can’t be that man I want and need to be in my own strength, but I know through God I can be moving that direction in my life. \u00a0I know God is not interested in my being loved and accepted here, just in His eyes. \u00a0When I go to be with Him, I pray that at least this could be said of me, (my words),<\/p>\n

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“He was an honest man with integrity. \u00a0He loved his wife, his family, and his friends. \u00a0He had time to show God’s love to everyone he came in contact with, and the lives of those he touched were better for him having been here. \u00a0He wasn’t the greatest photographer, or writer, or blogger, but he always tried to be better each day. \u00a0I’ve known few men that were more at peace, and filled with joy. \u00a0I know these things for certain; He loved His Heavenly Father, honored his earthly father, \u00a0knew Jesus deep in his heart, and was guided by the Holy Spirit! \u00a0He went to heaven not wanting anything more than what he was already given.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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If I can leave like that, I will have had a wonderful life, far more than I deserve…….<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 3:00 a.m., New York City, Marriott Maquis, room 3917. \u00a0I went to bed at 9:30 pretty tired, woke up at 2:00 a.m. \u00a0Wired, excited about Friday, wait a minute it’s already Friday. \u00a0I worked on the blog (Cheeseburgers in Paradise), \u00a0for about an hour, went back to bed, God said, “Get back up, I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}