{"id":3566,"date":"2012-03-10T17:19:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T01:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2012-03-10T17:24:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T01:24:17","slug":"blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mi amiga <a href=\"http:\/\/imperfectkate.wordpress.com\" title=\"Kate\">Kate<\/a>, who is working this Lent to &#8220;be as tame as other household kates&#8221; (sorry&#8230; couldn&#8217;t resist the temptation!), posted about<a href=\"http:\/\/imperfectkate.wordpress.com\" title=\"7 Quick Takes 11 (The Power of Positive Thinking)\"> the &#8220;blessings&#8221; in her life<\/a> for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conversiondiary.com\/\" title=\"7 Quick Takes Fridays\">Quick Takes<\/a> this week.  (Check out her &#8220;Hey Girl&#8221; pic which features her hilarious and holy husband Adam who is seriously tatted out in a way that makes his job as a youth minister amusing.)  After realizing that I had completely forgotten to put something in the queue last night to post today, I thought I would give you some Laura Story as well as counting my blessings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laura Story - Blessings\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CSVqHcdhXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On to my blessings (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<p>-being saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ<br \/>\n-God&#8217;s love<br \/>\n-Jon<br \/>\n-Daniel<br \/>\n-my cats<br \/>\n-multiple boxes of Samoas in the house<br \/>\n-a roof over my head<br \/>\n-Internet<br \/>\n-food to eat<br \/>\n-Daniel taking a nap right now so I can blog and answer emails<br \/>\n-a college degree<br \/>\n-a library card<br \/>\n-my NOOK and books to read on it<br \/>\n-a sushi place nearby<br \/>\n-Daniel&#8217;s smile<br \/>\n-friends online and in real life<br \/>\n-access to medical care<br \/>\n-a <a href=\"http:\/\/traderjoes.com\" title=\"Trader Joe's\">Trader Joe&#8217;s<\/a> within reasonable driving distance<br \/>\n-an orange tabby with an excellent motor and a nice belleh<br \/>\n-a beautiful house panther (even if she is incredibly needy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mi amiga Kate, who is working this Lent to &#8220;be as tame as other household kates&#8221; (sorry&#8230; couldn&#8217;t resist the temptation!), posted about the &#8220;blessings&#8221; in her life for her Quick Takes this week. (Check out her &#8220;Hey Girl&#8221; pic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=3566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,3,1,37,2,4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksmagazines","category-cats","category-daily-life","category-daniel","category-faith","category-family","category-occupying-lent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-Vw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}