{"id":2864,"date":"2010-05-20T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2864"},"modified":"2010-05-20T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T03:48:10","slug":"thankful-thursday-dont-hafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100520-2864.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Don&#8217;t Hafta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Today I&#8217;m thankful that I don&#8217;t hafta finish my to-do list<\/b><\/p>\n<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=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b> I&#8217;m thankful&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that when my plans to finish my dress are derailed by the realization that I need to whip up another baby quilt&#8211;STAT&#8211;it&#8217;s okay to leave the dress for another day<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that when I discover that the person I was hoping to get into contact with is out of town on vacation, it&#8217;s okay to leave the call until next week<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that when my heart is too full of prayer requests and I end up praying while vacuuming instead of listening to an audiobook, it&#8217;s okay to finish the audiobook some other time<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that when I wake up to rain that precludes any possibility of a bike ride, it&#8217;s okay to skip another day (I&#8217;ve only recently gotten back on my bike after the disastrously busy final few weeks of school.) <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that when I forget to ask about when that human trafficking talk is and learn only after I&#8217;ve already arranged to do something else, it&#8217;s okay to not go <\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m thankful that my to-do list is a tool for me to use, not a taskmaster to use me.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>I&#8217;m also thankful&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that I was able to get some quality work done on my thesis<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that I was able to dust and vacuum the living room (including getting all of those infernal Japanese beetles from the corners&#8211;I&#8217;ve been lazy and not been getting out the hose to take care of them.  But now, they are gone!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that I was able to whip together a quilt top (and even discovered that I had some fabric that I can use for backing&#8211;so I didn&#8217;t have to purchase more!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;that I was able to spend some quality time with my dad and my brother this evening<\/p>\n<p><i>I&#8217;m thankful that my worth is not based on what I do or do not do, but that God in His mercy allows me such a rich and full life.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m thankful that I don&#8217;t hafta finish my to-do list I&#8217;m thankful&#8230; &#8230;that when my plans to finish my dress are derailed by the realization that I need to whip up another baby quilt&#8211;STAT&#8211;it&#8217;s okay to leave the dress for another day &#8230;that when I discover that the person I was hoping to get &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: Don&#8217;t Hafta\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100520-2864.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: Don&#8217;t Hafta<\/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\/2864"}],"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=2864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}