{"id":154,"date":"2019-02-23T19:09:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2019-10-05T13:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T13:47:37","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am Nate Rollins, a child of God, a husband, a dad and I live in central Massachusetts. I was raised without knowing that God was in my life; in fact I spent some of my younger years claiming that I was an atheist. At the time, though, I really did not understand what that claim meant. But, God did eventually show me that He exists and, most importantly, He loves me. I now see that <strong>His love is what we are all called to exhibit in our lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since those days, I have come to understand that those who believe in and follow God are a family. And, like every family, we don\u2019t know all of the members, and we don\u2019t all believe the same things. But we do all have a common link and we do all&nbsp;<strong>need to stick together.<\/strong>&nbsp;As a family, we can support each other and overcome greater obstacles than if we faced them alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, my goal with this monthly letter that I send, called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/what-is-paraklesis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Parakl\u0113sis<\/a>,\u201d is to provide some\u00a0<strong>encouragement to everyone in the family.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe in the Bible \u2013 from Genesis thru Revelation \u2013 as God\u2019s gift to us for guidance, inspiration and Truth. From His scriptures, I have several that are foundational to my work here. I have that list on a separate page that you can check out by clicking&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/guiding-premise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/nate-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"picture of me...\" class=\"wp-image-155\" width=\"200\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/nate-headshot.jpg 322w, https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/nate-headshot-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 85vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Nate Rollins, a child of God, a husband, a dad and I live in central Massachusetts. I was raised without knowing that God was in my life; in fact I spent some of my younger years claiming that I was an atheist. At the time, though, I really did not understand what that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paraklesis.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}