{"id":306,"date":"2015-07-09T09:36:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amysmic\/?p=306"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:05:31","slug":"emu-or-llama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Emu or Llama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While riding in the country with me, my eight-year-old daughter believed she saw an emu in someone\u2019s backyard. I said, <em>\u201cAre you sure it was an emu? I know people have pet llamas.\u201d<\/em> She matter-of-factly asked me the following questions:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cDoes a llama have a blue head?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d I confessed.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cDoes a llama have feathers?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cDoes a llama have a beak?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cDoes a llama have two legs instead of four?\u201d<\/em> With a grin I admitted, <em>\u201cNo.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWell then, I\u2019m pretty sure it was an emu.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u2019ve laughed about this conversation a lot. She\u2019d make a fine lawyer! There was more than a good argument presented here; she declared simple truths. She was stating the obvious qualities of an emu. If it looks like an emu and walks like an emu, it is an emu!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have since wondered this about my life: if someone looking at me asked certain questions, would my Christian qualities be obvious?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u201cDoes she have faith that is unwavering?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cDoes she long to be with Christ and spend valuable time with Him?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cDoes she find her nourishment in His Word?\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cDoes she chase after the eternal things of Christ instead of the temporal things of this world?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u201cDo her thoughts, her motives, her speech, and her actions reflect His character?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If I look like I\u2019m in Christ and I walk like I\u2019m in Christ, then I am in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While riding in the country with me, my eight-year-old daughter believed she saw an emu in someone\u2019s backyard. I said, \u201cAre you sure it was an emu? I know people have pet llamas.\u201d She matter-of-factly asked me the following questions: \u201cDoes a llama have a blue head?\u201d \u201cNo,\u201d I confessed. \u201cDoes a llama have feathers?\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Emu or Llama?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}