{"id":3140,"date":"2019-05-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2019-05-11T21:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T01:11:02","slug":"who-the-heck-is-a-wam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/who-the-heck-is-a-wam\/","title":{"rendered":"Who the Heck Is a WAM?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe title=\"Who the Heck Is a WAM? 5\/18\/19\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/4vwam-b0e9fc?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/4vwam-b0e9fc?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>One kindergarten teacher often reminded her misbehaving children to stop being a WAM<\/u>.<\/strong> <em>The kids straightened up as soon as their teacher pointed out that they were being a <strong>WAM.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><u>What is a <strong>WAM<\/strong><\/u>? Why was being a <strong>WAM<\/strong> so bad? The teacher explained that <strong>WAM<\/strong> stands for <strong>\u201c<u>W<\/u>hat <u>A<\/u>bout <u>ME<\/u>?\u201d <\/strong>She was training the children to be less self-centered. <em>She wanted them to think about the needs of others and not just their own needs. So she taught them that no one liked  a <strong>WAM<\/strong>, a self-centered and a self-interested  person who only asked: <strong>\u201cWhat About ME?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Instead, she taught them to be a <strong>WAY<\/strong>, or as she explained it, people who ask, <strong>\u201c<u>W<\/u>hat <u>A<\/u>bout <u>Y<\/u>OU?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>You and I are people of the <strong>WAY<\/strong><\/u>. We must always try to ask, <strong>\u201c<u>W<\/u>hat <u>A<\/u>bout <u>Y<\/u>OU?\u201d<\/strong> Oh, occasionally we forget who we really are. We get lost and we lose our spiritual footing and we become a <strong>WAM.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>We need to remember what Jesus said, <strong>\u201cI am the <u>WAY<\/u>, the Truth and the Life\u201d <\/strong>(John 14:6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; One kindergarten teacher often reminded her misbehaving children to stop being a WAM. The kids straightened up as soon as their teacher pointed out that they were being a WAM. What is a WAM? Why was being a WAM so bad? The teacher explained that WAM stands for \u201cWhat About ME?\u201d She was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1557623277_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treat\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treat<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp; &nbsp; One kindergarten teacher often reminded her misbehaving children to stop being a WAM. The kids straightened up as soon as their teacher pointed out that they were being a WAM. What is a WAM? Why was being a WAM so bad? 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