{"id":197,"date":"2017-06-09T18:58:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T18:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/?p=197"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T16:45:20","slug":"a-gift-that-grows-when-paid-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"A gift that grows when paid forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you ever meet someone brave and powerful enough to walk with you directly through your most uncomfortable wounds and shadow caves\u2014someone with the stupefying courage to see through the chinks of your armour and then help you take it off\u2014love them. Because they have done something for you which is impossible to do alone. They will show you the treasure you\u2019ve been seeking all your life, and they can do this because they aren\u2019t afraid of your fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Jacob Nordby<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have the courage to be that friend for another person?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frances Macdougal was for me.<\/p>\n<p>And will always be, especially in my heart.<\/p>\n<p>What might you need to have in place in order to more easily pay forward the love that was invested in you by those in your past?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Frances.<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you ever meet someone brave and powerful enough to walk with you directly through your most uncomfortable wounds and <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/?p=197\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue Reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotional-intelligence","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wisdomcollective.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}