{"id":3441,"date":"2019-03-27T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2019-03-27T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:19:21","slug":"brought-out-of-a-dark-place-into-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/?p=3441","title":{"rendered":"Brought out of a dark place into the light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Apostle Emma,<br \/>\nThis letter is to inform that within the next 30 days, I will be enlisted into the Army Reserves. For the past year and a half, I tried to at least be looked at by the Air Force and when they finally looked at me they told me that I was overweight. When I was told that, I was about to give up. I thought that it was the end of my world. I then realized that it isn\u2019t the end, it is just the beginning, because I know that when God closes one door, he opens another. What was behind the new door was a better opportunity, no prejudice thoughts, just bigger and better options. My green and gold officer is great and very encouraging. I was told that I wasn\u2019t overweight, that I was smart enough to pass all the required test and I am still able to go to college full term. My job in the Army would be a photographer. I am going to college, well an art institute, to major in digital photography and minor in fine arts. We do not have a ROTC instructor at the time but I just know it was God to randomly bring two recruiters into our class. I was told that being in the reserves I would only have to work one weekend a month and at least two weeks a summer. This opportunity is amazing. It wouldn\u2019t interfere with my school work nor will it interfere with church. I want to thank God for bringing me out of such a dark place and bringing me to the light. If you look at me now you most definitely will not believe what I had been through. Thank you Apostle for all your prayers. You are amazing. God Bless!!<\/p>\n<p>~D.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Apostle Emma, This letter is to inform that within the next 30 days, I will be enlisted into the Army Reserves. For the past year and a half, I tried to at least be looked at by the Air Force and when they finally looked at me they told me that I was overweight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZgHd-Tv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keminc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}