{"id":70,"date":"2017-02-20T00:41:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T00:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-02-20T00:41:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T00:41:21","slug":"lauren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/2017\/02\/20\/lauren\/","title":{"rendered":"Lauren"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cGrowing up my family was definitely a Christian family but church was not priority. I played sports and my mom was sick and it was hard to do things. The Lord blessed my growing up with not much family tension and a decent level of comfort. But in 2007, beginning of my 6th grade year, my mom committed suicide. That was the first time I\u2019d ever really thought about life. I had prayed the prayer in 4th grade, but it wasn\u2019t real. As soon as my dad told me that, I ran to my room and was just yelling at God, \u2018Why would you do this?\u2019 I was done, I shoved my emotions down and just went right back to school. Then a year and a half later my 18-year-old cousin passed away. The Lord used this to show me that life is precious and it\u2019s fragile and it can be gone in the blink of an eye. I needed Christ on my own, my own relationship. So I committed to live for him in 2010. It\u2019s been a fight ever since with healing a destroyed relationship with my brother, using unhealthy relationships to point me back to Him, and the Corban community to rebuild my life in Christ. I came here unknowingly weak and broken in Fall 2014 and God has used this place to transform my life. I will always fight my pressing insecurities, choking pride and inability to find my worth in Christ but He has shown Himself faithful hundreds of times and I know he\u2019s not done yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cGrowing up my family was definitely a Christian family but church was not priority. I played sports and my mom was sick and it was hard to do things. The Lord blessed my growing up with not much family tension and a decent level of comfort. But in 2007, beginning of my 6th grade year, … Continue reading Lauren<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explore.corban.edu\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}