{"id":258,"date":"2009-04-24T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2009-04-24T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T00:57:12","slug":"for-this-and-so-much-more-o-lord-i-give-you-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090424-258.htm","title":{"rendered":"For this and so much more, O Lord, I give You thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Busy, caught up in her own life, rushed about her business.  The only time she comes to Him is when she has a problem.  He solves her problem and she skips away, busy about the business of doing whatever she was at first&#8211;before He touched her.<\/p>\n<p>I have been that girl too many times to count.  But yesterday, I was reminded to be thankful through the story of the ten lepers healed by Christ.  He healed ten, but only one, only ONE, returned to thank Him. And what a shame, that ONE was a samaritan.  How shameful that the nine others, presumably of the chosen people, failed to thank the Chosen One, their long-awaited Messiah.<\/p>\n<p>So, for once, I&#8217;m going to not complain about the weather or my back or whatever I might complain about.  I&#8217;m going to take a while to return thanks.<\/p>\n<p><i>Thank You, Lord&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n&#8230;that I never lost my voice<br \/>\n&#8230;that my voice is almost back to normal<br \/>\n&#8230;that I was able to work consistently throughout this little cold<br \/>\n&#8230;for sunshine and wind and a ceiling fan for my room<br \/>\n&#8230;for roommates who cook and a friend who comes to quilt<br \/>\n&#8230;for dozens of pairs of shoes and opportunity to wear them<br \/>\n&#8230;for thirteen flights of stairs and the comfortable joy of feeling my body grow stronger<br \/>\n&#8230;for a mind to read charts, an ear to hear my patient&#8217;s needs, and a gentle reminder to offer more than just physical food<br \/>\n<i>For these things and so much more, O Lord, I give You thanks.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Busy, caught up in her own life, rushed about her business. The only time she comes to Him is when she has a problem. He solves her problem and she skips away, busy about the business of doing whatever she was at first&#8211;before He touched her. I have been that girl too many times to &#8230; <a title=\"For this and so much more, O Lord, I give You thanks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20090424-258.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For this and so much more, O Lord, I give You thanks<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258"}],"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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}