{"id":1981,"date":"2009-07-01T00:39:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T04:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2009-07-01T00:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T04:39:20","slug":"lets-not-get-in-the-way-of-gods-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s not get in the way of God&#8217;s Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0609\/24353.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> (HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/holycoast.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/gov-sanford-god-wants-me-to-stay-in.html\" target=\"_blank\">Holycoast<\/a>), <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">former<\/span> Governor Mark Sanford writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immediately after all this unfolded last week I had thought I would resign &#8211; as I believe in the military model of leadership and when trust of any form is broken one lays down the sword. A long list of close friends have suggested otherwise &#8211; that for God to really work in my life I shouldn\u2019t be getting off so lightly. While it would be personally easier to exit stage left, their point has been that my larger sin was the sin of pride. They contended that in many instances I may well have held the right position on limited government, spending or taxes &#8211; but that if my spirit wasn&#8217;t right in the presentation of those ideas to people in the General Assembly, or elsewhere, I could elicit the response that I had at many times indeed gotten from other state leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\" style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">Resigning is the <em>easy <\/em>way out? Huh?<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: medium none; overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">Be a man and show us how easy it is, Gov. Sanford.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Politico (HT: Holycoast), former Governor Mark Sanford writes, Immediately after all this unfolded last week I had thought I would resign &#8211; as I believe in the military model of leadership and when trust of any form is broken one lays down the sword. 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