{"id":2573,"date":"2010-05-06T17:54:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2573"},"modified":"2010-05-06T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T22:54:48","slug":"thankful-thursday-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100506-2573.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: The Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/category\/thankfulness\/thankful-thursday\"><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\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His,<br \/>\n         And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name.<br \/>\n        For His anger is but for a moment,<br \/>\n         His favor is for life;<br \/>\n         Weeping may endure for a night,<br \/>\n         But joy comes in the morning. &#8221;<br \/>\n<i>Psalm 30:4-5<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That I was able to send in another paper this morning<\/li>\n<li>That I had a chance to quilt a bit with my dear friend Joanna (it&#8217;s been too long, far too long!)<\/li>\n<li>That I found a nice little MP3 player for uber-cheap.  Now I can listen to sermons and audio lectures and audio books whenever and wherever I want.  (I am my father&#8217;s daughter.)<\/li>\n<li>That I had a nice chat with my mom and my brother when we dropped by to see mom&#8217;s &#8220;mother of the groom&#8221; dress<\/li>\n<li>That I sent in the last grades and am done teaching for the semester.<\/li>\n<li>That I had such wonderful instructors to work with this semester.<\/li>\n<li>That I have a gardening and dinner date with my dad this evening.<\/li>\n<li>That dawn breaks, signaling an end, perhaps, to this dark night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20100506-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sun breaking out of the clouds\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am so very thankful for the great faithfulness of my Savior.  As the hymn says &#8220;Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, Blessings all mine with ten thousand besides.&#8221;  I have been so blessed with His presence and guidance through the land of shadow&#8211;and in Him I have hope for the haze of a thousand tomorrows.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You, my Lord, for the morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sing praise to the LORD, you saints of His, And give thanks at the remembrance of His holy name. For His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life; Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning. &#8221; Psalm 30:4-5 Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230; That I was able to &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: The Morning\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100506-2573.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: The Morning<\/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\/2573"}],"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=2573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}