{"id":618,"date":"2011-05-29T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T09:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/simplelife\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-05-25T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T11:40:30","slug":"loving-as-god-loves-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/simplelife\/2011\/05\/loving-as-god-loves-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Loving As God Loves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Loving As God Loves Me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>by Michelle Demeree<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Do you know your inner self?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Do you love YOU as Jesus loves YOU?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">To love as Jesus loves, I must find faith<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I must find faith to pray to God.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I \u00a0must work on being the person God wants me to be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Try to know your feelings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Then let&#8217;s go with God and trust his love for us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Then we can love ourselves as God love us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/simplelife\/files\/2011\/05\/shelly-and-refreshments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-619\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/234\/2011\/05\/shelly-and-refreshments-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><em>Shelly Demeree is a member of The Special Gathering of Melbourne. \u00a0She loves to express herself in writing. <\/em><em> Her poetry and writing has appears in several publications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loving As God Loves Me by Michelle Demeree Do you know your inner self? 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