{"id":2684,"date":"2021-03-26T06:40:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2021-03-26T06:40:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T12:40:40","slug":"amma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/?p=2684","title":{"rendered":"Amma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WOman&#8230;Sister&#8230;Daughter&#8230;Confidant&#8230;Mother&#8230;Divine!<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, I saw Amma&#8230;again. It wasn&#8217;t that I saw a face; just felt such <em>overwhelming<\/em> Love from The Divine as Mother for\/to me&#8230;and my circle.<\/p>\n<p>I was raised to believe that The Divine is Abba and Amma <em>(Father and Mother)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But when I embraced and mentioned God as Mother to me, some were immediately uncomfortable&#8230;nervous. The very people who taught me verses about God not being male or female squirmed hearing Amma\/Mother.<\/p>\n<p>IF God is limitless, then The Divine is <em>not<\/em> limited to a masculine or feminine form.<\/p>\n<p>I AM reminded <em>again<\/em> that it&#8217;s both-and&#8230;not either-or, even in this!<\/p>\n<p>Abba\/Amma be with you&#8230;always.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Common Day Hero:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">T<\/span><\/span>he kindness, hospitality, beauty, strength and unconditional\/fierce Love of Amma is so evident in the way you live. It is an honor to have you in my circle. MilliC, I dedicate this post to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOman&#8230;Sister&#8230;Daughter&#8230;Confidant&#8230;Mother&#8230;Divine! Last weekend, I saw Amma&#8230;again. It wasn&#8217;t that I saw a face; just felt such overwhelming Love from The Divine as Mother for\/to me&#8230;and my circle. I was raised to believe that The Divine is Abba and Amma (Father and Mother). But when I embraced and mentioned God as Mother to me, some were&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141,145,139,34,142,146,144],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amma","tag-confidant","tag-daughter","tag-divine","tag-godisneithermalenorfemale","tag-mother","tag-sister"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2704,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lalijean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}