{"id":2277,"date":"2012-04-23T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shieldsgroup.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2012-04-23T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T21:06:52","slug":"do-you-ever-ask-how-did-i-become-so-helpless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/do-you-ever-ask-how-did-i-become-so-helpless\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Ever Ask: How did I become so helpless?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bitterness usually doesn&#8217;t set in<\/strong> because of what happened to you; Bitterness usually sets in through your interpretation of <em>why<\/em> it happened to you. The brokenness that settles deep in your soul &#8212; I know this is going to be hard for you to believe but it&#8217;s not there because of what you experienced &#8212; of what happened. It is there because of your interpretation of your conclusion of <em>why<\/em> it happened to you.<\/p>\n<p>It can cause you to take on a filter, a mindset of\u00a0victimization\u00a0for the rest of your life which will cause you to live a life of powerlessness for the rest of your life. It will cause you to misdirect your strength, trying to control the outside world that you have no control over, <strong>while relinquishing responsibility and control for your inner-world which you have full control over<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>~Erwin McMannus, <em>Artisan: Interpretation &#8211; Translation of Life<\/em>\u00a0<a title=\"Mosaic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mosaic.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.mosaic.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitterness usually doesn&#8217;t set in because of what happened to you; Bitterness usually sets in through your interpretation of why it happened to you. The brokenness that settles deep in your soul &#8212; I know this is going to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/do-you-ever-ask-how-did-i-become-so-helpless\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvmV-AJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldsgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}