{"id":21,"date":"2014-12-03T03:20:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2014-12-03T03:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T03:20:35","slug":"nothing-ever-stays-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Nothing ever stays the same&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">March 16, 1997 is the date when my life was drastically changed; everything turned upside down in the world that I knew at the time. A horrible accident left me, a 15-year-old kid, facing a scary possibility of being a paraplegic who would be bound to a wheelchair for the rest of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I didn&#8217;t want to hear those words, and was convinced that God had other plans for me, although I must admit, I was not sure what those plans would be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In reality, no one knows what the next day will bring. While things looked gloomy at that time, something down deep in my spirit convinced me that brighter days were ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">At this writing, I live a productive life free of a wheelchair; have a beautiful wife and a young family and travel throughout as a motivational speaker. As I try to piece the entire puzzle together, I&#8217;m convinced that there is a purpose for everything. The Bible reminds us that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord. You see, I believe that I am God&#8217;s purpose and that He is my purpose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When you finish reading my story, I believe you will agree.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 16, 1997 is the date when my life was drastically changed; everything turned upside down in the world that I knew at the time. A horrible accident left me, a 15-year-old kid, facing a scary possibility of being a paraplegic who would be bound to a wheelchair for the rest of my life. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shanegoddard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}