{"id":1797,"date":"2011-05-11T07:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2011-07-22T22:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T04:36:04","slug":"discipline-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/discipline-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Discipline is Not My Forte"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1798\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/discipline-journey\/bridge_md\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1798\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1798\" title=\"Another Path on the Journey\" src=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bridge_md.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a beautiful bridge in a flowery, wooded area\" width=\"585\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bridge_md.jpg 585w, https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bridge_md-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1798\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another path on the journey toward discipline<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m realizing more and more that the fruit of many of my struggles come from a certain root. \u00a0<strong>I am a horribly undisciplined person. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, starting this week, I&#8217;m going to attempt to begin a journey of discipline. \u00a0I&#8217;m praying for and working on having more discipline in these areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My devotional life<\/li>\n<li>Exercise<\/li>\n<li>Rest<\/li>\n<li>Visionary thinking<\/li>\n<li>Executing logistical details<!--more--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My hope with this journey that will also become a series here is that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I can be helped by all of you who are probably far more disciplined than I am<\/li>\n<li>I can perhaps be of help to some of you who might be facing the same struggles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I am facing a struggle with consistently being disciplined in these areas I do know some tools and techniques that (if I only applied them) are extremely helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;ll share some ideas for becoming more disciplined in my devotional life and soon will revisit this to see what progress has been made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you join me on my discipline journey? \u00a0If you would, either to give me advice or to join my in becoming more disciplined, please leave a comment!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This post is part of the <a title=\"How to be an Offering\" href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/category\/offerings\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to be an Offering<\/a> series written Wednesdays at I am an Offering. \u00a0If you&#8217;d like to participate feel free to write your own post outlining how you, or someone else, has been offering their life as an act of worship. \u00a0Link back to this post in your own and leave a comment here letting me know you&#8217;ve written it. \u00a0If you&#8217;re on Twitter use the hashtag #livingsacrifice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/discipline-journey\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m realizing more and more that the fruit of many of my struggles come from a certain root. \u00a0I am a horribly undisciplined person. So, starting this week, I&#8217;m going to attempt to begin a journey of discipline. \u00a0I&#8217;m praying for and working on having more discipline in these areas: My devotional life Exercise Rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offerings","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1864,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}