{"id":3022,"date":"2010-06-03T10:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2010-06-03T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T15:53:13","slug":"thankful-thursday-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100603-3022.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for a lovely <b>bike ride<\/b>, just me a God.  We chatted, I surrendered, He granted peace.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Be anxious for nothing, but in everything through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.  And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.&#8221;<br \/>\n~Philippians 4:6-7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;for a nice break at a <b>playground from my childhood<\/b>.  I fondly remember swinging on the swings, walking along the railroad-tie retaining wall, and hopping on my bike for the return trip across the railroad tracks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20100603-2.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for an &#8220;accidental&#8221; <b>run in with friends<\/b>.  I dropped by my folks house on my way home from my ride to say &#8220;Hi&#8221; to my little sister.  She had Kayla and Joanna over and invited me to watch a movie with them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20100603-1.jpg\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for a <b>sweet chick flick<\/b>.  Thanks to the long conversation with God on my bike ride, I was able to make it through a chick flick, not once but <i>twice<\/i>.  I haven&#8217;t been able to do that (that is, watch a chick flick all the way through) for months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for <b>my brother cooking<\/b> for us.  I&#8217;d already eaten dinner, but when Timothy offered to prepare Mac&#8217;n&#8217;Cheese for the girls, I wouldn&#8217;t refuse.  He served us lemon and strawberry sherbet (bought with his own money) to go along with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;for a <b>friend who listens<\/b>.  I&#8217;ve been so blessed to have Joanna as a friend.  Last night, she listened (yet again) as I shared my laden heart.<\/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\/buttons\/thankfulthursday.jpg\" title=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m thankful&#8230; &#8230;for a lovely bike ride, just me a God. We chatted, I surrendered, He granted peace. &#8220;Be anxious for nothing, but in everything through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: Last Night\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100603-3022.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: Last Night<\/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\/3022"}],"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=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}