{"id":9064,"date":"2026-05-02T13:38:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2026-05-02T13:38:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T13:38:50","slug":"welcoming-children-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/welcoming-children-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 18: 5 &#8220;And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.<\/p>\n<p>Observation: When Jesus came into my heart, I noticed a difference on how I saw people.  I never paid attention to the homeless, elderly or children.  When Jesus changed my heart, suddenly I had compassion for the homeless, I wanted to speak to the elderly and loved children.  I helped with kid classes at the church; I would speak to children I saw and played Santa Claus for the CARE ministry.  Jesus gives you the power and desire to keep His word.<\/p>\n<p>Application: I need to keep looking at people through Jesus eyes.  Filled with love, compassion and a desire to help others.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer: Lord continue to give me the abilities and desires to touch other\u2019s life in your name.  May I show your love in this place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture: Matthew 18: 5 &#8220;And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. Observation: When Jesus came into my heart, I noticed a difference on how I saw people. I never paid attention to the homeless, elderly or children. When Jesus changed my heart, suddenly I had compassion for the homeless, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gettingoverdepression.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}