{"id":482,"date":"2009-10-04T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2009-10-04T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T01:16:06","slug":"simple-sunday-skipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20091004-482.htm","title":{"rendered":"Simple Sunday: Skipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifeonsylvandrive.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Simple%20Sundays\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"images\/simplesunday.jpg\" alt=\"Simple Sunday icon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>~Thankful for (almost) guilt-free skipping today.  With one week to go before my RD Exam (and 60 lab reports to grade), I knew I needed to get down to business.  So I skipped the Sunday school prayer hour, choosing instead to spend some time in the Word at home.  And I skipped the Precinct meeting of the Republican party (Mom and Dad will have to catch me up later.)  And I skipped Life Chain (Probably the second time I&#8217;ve missed it since it began.)  And I&#8217;m currently skipping a movie night at church.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t feel bad at all.  I spent some hard-core time with my MNT text&#8211;and am feeling much more prepared for my exam.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never even thought of skipping.  I don&#8217;t skip things.  Especially not church things.  Or political things.  I go. to. everything.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday, my Dad told me that I had &#8220;permission&#8221; to not attend the precinct meeting&#8211;and it suddenly hit me.  I don&#8217;t HAVE to attend everything.  Not right now, when I&#8217;ve got too much on my plate already.  I don&#8217;t have to attend things just because they show up in the church bulletin or in my mailbox. <\/p>\n<p>Thankful for the realization&#8211;and thankful for all the work I managed to get done on my quiet day while everyone else was attending the stuff I skipped.<\/p>\n<p><i>Visit Davene at <a href=\"http:\/\/lifeonsylvandrive.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Simple%20Sundays\" target=\"_blank\"> Life on Sylvan Drive<\/a> for more Simple Sunday posts.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~Thankful for (almost) guilt-free skipping today. With one week to go before my RD Exam (and 60 lab reports to grade), I knew I needed to get down to business. So I skipped the Sunday school prayer hour, choosing instead to spend some time in the Word at home. And I skipped the Precinct meeting &#8230; <a title=\"Simple Sunday: Skipping\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2009\/20091004-482.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simple Sunday: Skipping<\/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":[37,41],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}