{"id":12272,"date":"2018-07-18T19:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=12272"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:22:20","slug":"real-story-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/real-story-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, there are two sides to every story.\u00a0 How can you figure out which story is the real story?
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Even when two people experience the same event at the same time, they tell two different stories about it.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Each person looks at life differently.\u00a0\u00a0 We all filter the stories about our lives through our own life experiences.<\/p>\n

Sometimes those filters are negative, sometimes positive.<\/p>\n

The sad thing is that too often people judge others based on their own version of the story.\u00a0 Although they do not know the reality of the experience of the person they are judging, they still somehow feel qualified to judge another human being.<\/p>\n

Even two siblings who grew up in the same house can struggle to figure out what the real story of their childhood is.\u00a0 Every person who has at least one sibling knows this.<\/p>\n

My own sister judges me and disagrees with my version of my childhood. However, she is almost 9 years older than myself. She left home at age 18 and did not come back to our home, not even for holidays.\u00a0 When she left our childhood home, she was unhappy and vowed to never return.\u00a0 But now she says that my childhood was a healthy one.\u00a0 Maybe she filters her opinions of my childhood through her adult experiences, whatever they may be.<\/p>\n

How can a person look around his own filters to discover the real story? Just climb above life\u2019s chaos, confusion, judgment, hurt, and pain of past wounds by forgiving those who helped create your negative filters.\u00a0 Let go of all resentment, anger, bitterness, and hatred.\u00a0 When you let go of all of these negative things, you will see life through the positive filters of a healing heart.<\/p>\n

Only then will you figure out what the real story is.<\/p>\n

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soar like an\u00a0eagle<\/a>\u00a0above life\u2019s storms.<\/h4>\n

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Are\u00a0 you struggling to cope with the lemons in your life?<\/h4>\n

Don’t let your past prevent your future success!<\/a><\/h4>\n

Are you unsure of how to forgive others?<\/h4>\n

Wishing you the peace of an eagle!<\/a><\/h4>\n

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for a\u00a0child<\/a>\u00a0you care about today!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, there are two sides to every story.\u00a0 How can you figure out which story is the real story?   Even when two people experience the same event at the same time, they tell two different stories about it. Why?\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1862],"tags":[1588,77,1271,1269,1328,1334,1270,1329,1337,1714,1332,1321,12,1331,1330,1320,1273,1322,1302,1274,1323,1325,1326,1324,19,1275,1319,1318,716,107,1327,1336,1335,1268,1333,4144,297,4145,1299],"class_list":["post-12272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-problems-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words-eagle","tag-common-core-eagle-reading-book","tag-bj-rae","tag-books-for-children","tag-books-for-kids","tag-child-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-reading-book","tag-common-core-book","tag-common-core-reading-book","tag-core-reading-book","tag-eagle","tag-eagle-book-for-child","tag-eagle-child-book","tag-eagle-children-book","tag-eagle-childrens-book","tag-eagle-core-reading-book","tag-eagle-kid-book","tag-eagle-kids-book","tag-eagle-reading-book","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-child","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-children","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-kids","tag-encouragement","tag-encouraging","tag-encouraging-childrens-book","tag-encouraging-kids-book","tag-encouraging-words","tag-forgiveness","tag-kid-eagle-reading-book","tag-kid-reading-book","tag-kids-book","tag-kids-books","tag-reading-book","tag-real-story","tag-soar-like-an-eagle","tag-truth","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20952,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions\/20952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}