{"id":341,"date":"2013-05-21T00:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T05:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplechara.wordpress.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2013-05-21T00:20:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T05:20:13","slug":"grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my family and friends celebrated so much: my graduation, my sister&#8217;s graduation, my other sister&#8217;s trip to Indonesia, long-time friendships, and even the great weather. I&#8217;m reminded daily that I have so much to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yE0W-kQyz6A\">thankful<\/a> for as I enter into this next stage of life, and this song truly begins to reach to the depths of what I feel in gratefulness to God for all He&#8217;s doing in the lives of my family and friends. Every time I begin to think of the many things the Lord&#8217;s done in my life these past few months, I can&#8217;t help but think of how awesome these next few months will be. He&#8217;s so unerringly <em>good<\/em> that I can barely stand it or can&#8217;t even begin to explain it. I think I say I&#8217;m thankful for things a lot, but in this season of life, I&#8217;m really, really grateful for just so much. Over the years, I&#8217;ve found that being grateful is the best medicine one can take. When I get in the mindset of thankfulness, other circumstances melt away as I realize that I&#8217;m truly blessed despite whatever else may seem pressing.<\/p>\n<p>I also told my sister I&#8217;d love to share some of the photos she takes while in Bali, Indonesia, for her photography class, so I&#8217;m hoping she&#8217;ll email some while there or share others when she returns!<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ll be keeping the people of Oklahoma in my prayers; I can&#8217;t imagine the stress surrounding the families there right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my family and friends celebrated so much: my graduation, my sister&#8217;s graduation, my other sister&#8217;s trip to Indonesia, long-time friendships, and even the great weather. I&#8217;m reminded daily that I have so much to be thankful for as I enter into this next stage of life, and this song truly begins to reach to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17,38,56,70,80,81,88,121,202,208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}