{"id":12537,"date":"2013-02-11T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=12537"},"modified":"2013-02-11T09:47:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T15:47:31","slug":"gifted-to-lead-join-me-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/gifted-to-lead-join-me-in-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifted to Lead- Join me in reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_3631.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12538\" title=\"Gifted to Lead\" alt=\"Gifted to Lead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_3631-640x856.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_3631-640x856.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_3631-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMG_3631.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just starting to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gifted-Lead-Leading-Woman-Church\/dp\/0310285968\" target=\"_blank\">Gifted to Lead, The Art of Leading as a Woman in the Church<\/a>\u00a0by Nancy Beach of Willow Creek Community Church one chapter per day until I finish it. (There are only eight chapters, so it shouldn&#8217;t take long!!)<\/p>\n<p>No, I am not a leader in my church, but I feel as though I have been called to lead online and I know God has more plans for using me.<\/p>\n<p>This book was given to me a few years back by my church, though, and interestingly, I just rediscovered it on my bookshelf, unopened. The timing of finding it is quite uncanny, as I have been calling out to God for direction in just this type of area and unable to find it. It seems it is difficult to find a devotional guide for strong women. And \u00a0yet this was there all along. No, it is not a devotional, but I have a feeling it is going to guide me and help me grow closer to my Father and do a better job of recognizing and using the gifts he has shared with me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone else out there want to join me in the reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just starting to read Gifted to Lead, The Art of Leading as a Woman in the Church\u00a0by Nancy Beach of Willow Creek Community Church one chapter per day until I finish it. (There are only eight chapters, so it shouldn&#8217;t take long!!) No, I am not a leader in my church, but I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,365],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","category-inspiration-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12540,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions\/12540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}