{"id":1713,"date":"2026-01-17T16:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:56:43","slug":"rising-above-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/rising-above-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Above the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"11\">When I face challenges, I choose to see myself as an architect. A builder doesn&#8217;t walk away from a rugged landscape; they design a structure that masters it. I\u2019ve learned that if I shrink in the face of trouble, my world gets smaller. But if I expand my faith and my effort, I rise above the obstacle.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"12\">I lean on <b data-path-to-node=\"12\" data-index-in-node=\"10\">James 1:2-4<\/b>, which teaches us to count it all joy when we meet trials, for the testing of our faith produces steadfastness. It is through these &#8220;limits&#8221; that we are made perfect. In <i data-path-to-node=\"12\" data-index-in-node=\"192\">The Obstacle Is the Way<\/i>, Ryan Holiday notes, &#8220;The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.&#8221; Don\u2019t fear the mountain; use it as a pedestal to reach higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I face challenges, I choose to see myself as an architect. A builder doesn&#8217;t walk away from a rugged landscape; they design a structure that masters it. I\u2019ve learned that if I shrink in the face of trouble, my world gets smaller. But if I expand my faith and my effort, I rise above [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ageneasakome.com\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}