{"id":11149,"date":"2013-05-09T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2013-05-09T13:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T18:40:56","slug":"thankful-thursday-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130509-11149.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/category\/thankfulness\/thankful-thursday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" src=\"images\/buttons\/thankfulthursday2.jpg\" title=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This past week has been a stressful one for both Daniel and I. Daniel is nearing the end of his semester&#8211;with all the accompanying projects that go along with it. So he&#8217;s been busy with an economics project, building a model to predict entrepreneurial activity&#8211;and I&#8217;ve been&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been broken, needy, clingy. <\/p>\n<p>I try to give him space to get his work done, but sometimes I forget. And sometimes he sees through my attempts to stay busy, recognizes the tears building inside of me. <\/p>\n<p>And despite his own stress, he tenderly cares for me.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an itemized list this week&#8211;not everything needs to be shared with the world. <\/p>\n<p>But know this&#8211;I am so thankful for the man God has given me as husband. <\/p>\n<p>He sacrifices himself for me. He listens to me. He holds me when I cry. He prays for me. He loves me.<\/p>\n<p>In Daniel, I encounter a taste of the love my Heavenly Bridegroom has for me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You, Lord, for blessing me with this man, my husband. And thank You, Lord, for being the Perfect Husband after which every imperfect earthly husband is named.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week has been a stressful one for both Daniel and I. Daniel is nearing the end of his semester&#8211;with all the accompanying projects that go along with it. So he&#8217;s been busy with an economics project, building a model to predict entrepreneurial activity&#8211;and I&#8217;ve been&#8230; I&#8217;ve been broken, needy, clingy. I try to &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: Daniel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2013\/20130509-11149.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: Daniel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11155,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/11155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}