{"id":72,"date":"2014-08-14T23:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/14\/dont-ask-more-than-god-does\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T22:48:54","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:48:54","slug":"dont-ask-more-than-god-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/14\/dont-ask-more-than-god-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Ask More Than God Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dont-Ask-More-Than-God-Does-CatholicMom-533x400.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Dont-Ask-More-Than-God-Does-CatholicMom-533x400.jpg\" height=\"480\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\nFor awhile now, it has felt like I have been carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. At least my little corner of it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\nAs a wife, as a mother of six children, as a homemaker, I have realized that I put an incredible amount of pressure on myself to do it all. And to do it all really, really well.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\n<i>Do you do this, too?<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 6px;\">\nThere is this unspoken, unwritten expectation that I put upon myself that is so high, that I very rarely meet it. 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