{"id":1957,"date":"2010-03-18T22:10:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2010-03-18T22:10:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T03:10:38","slug":"thankful-thursday-sister-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100318-1957.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Sister Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/thankfulthursday.jpg\" title=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m thankful&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>for the delicious (if somewhat monochromatic meal) I got to enjoy with my big sister Tuesday night.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/images\/20100318-1.jpg\" title=\"Monochromatic meal\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\nAnna provided the wine (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesarthurvineyards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">James Arthur Vineyard&#8217;s<\/a> San Realto&#8211;one of my all time favorites) and the roast beef.  I provided the jello and made my <a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/recipes\/honey_glazed_root_vegetables.htm\">Honey-Glazed Root Vegetables<\/a>.  Both of us still had water in our water bottles so we chose to just drink out of them instead of dirtying more dishes.  Aren&#8217;t we just the most practical things?<\/li>\n<li>for a chance to sleep in yesterday and then veg about with my sister.<\/li>\n<li>that Anna has found a church that is encouraging her in her walk.<\/li>\n<li>that I got to meet all of Anna&#8217;s Bible study gals at Bible study last night (and that they took it okay when I started bawling in the middle of study&#8211;so sorry, Anna, so sorry.   I didn&#8217;t intend to.)<\/li>\n<li>that I had another chance to sleep in today at my sister&#8217;s house.<\/li>\n<li>that I&#8217;m home again&#8211;but that my sister is coming down for the weekend so we can have hard-core family time this weekend (On the agenda?  Wedding invitation addressing, quilt-making, birthday dinner having, birthday dinner going, and church attending.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But most of all, I&#8217;m thankful that Jesus is all-sufficient. I&#8217;m thankful that when my heart screams in pain, He is my all in all.  I&#8217;m thankful that when it only aches, He is my all in all.  And I&#8217;m thankful that the joy of the Lord is my strength&#8211;and that He keeps the pain from paralyzing me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I&#8217;m thankful&#8230; for the delicious (if somewhat monochromatic meal) I got to enjoy with my big sister Tuesday night. Anna provided the wine (James Arthur Vineyard&#8217;s San Realto&#8211;one of my all time favorites) and the roast beef. I provided the jello and made my Honey-Glazed Root Vegetables. Both of us still had water in &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: Sister Time\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100318-1957.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: Sister Time<\/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\/1957"}],"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=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}