{"id":7014,"date":"2012-12-04T00:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T00:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2012-12-04T14:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:42:52","slug":"the-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=7014","title":{"rendered":"The t-shirt………"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many men have a favorite t-shirt they love to sleep in. \u00a0It’s usually one of their older ones that has been washed many times and is finally soft and comfortable. \u00a0The logo that is silk screened on the front starts to fade….. such is the case with one of my favorite comfortable shirts. \u00a0This shirt says “Not all that wander are lost.” \u00a0It has a deeper meaning for me that what it may first appear to say. \u00a0Several years ago I named my blog “the pilgrim’s chronicles” and I decided to call myself the pilgrim. \u00a0The reason is that a pilgrim is someone wandering, often on a religious or spiritual pilgrimage. \u00a0A pilgrim is someone that is seeking and in the process of growing through his travels.<\/p>\n

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I think, and I believe most people would like to think, that their lives are a series of travels from point to point, with a plan, a map, a purpose, but I’m afraid that often that is not the case. \u00a0Because of of circumstances of our own making, or the circumstances that may be caused by others, we often take a, not so fortuitous, route from point to point in life. \u00a0So, in fact, we do wander in life. \u00a0I’m not lost, I may wander and I may get off track, but I was found my Jesus, and He saved me. \u00a0He gave me salvation and forgiveness, and God uses that wandering to teach us the valuable lessons on which we grow stronger and closer to Him. \u00a0As you wander you draw closer to Him as you learn His ways, and His truths. \u00a0God also uses your wandering times to show you how faithful He is, and how much He loves you.<\/p>\n

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Being truly lost means we are without hope, with our Heavenly Father we don’t ever have to be truly lost!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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

Many men have a favorite t-shirt they love to sleep in. \u00a0It’s usually one of their older ones that has been washed many times and is finally soft and comfortable. \u00a0The logo that is silk screened on the front starts to fade….. such is the case with one of my favorite comfortable shirts. \u00a0This shirt […]<\/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-7014","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\/7014","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=7014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7017,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}