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<\/a><\/p>\nThis week I’m thankful…<\/b><\/p>\n
…for being able to Skype<\/b> with my sister Grace for an hour–mostly just chatting at each other as we surfed the internet, but time spent in one another’s company nonetheless.<\/p>\n
…for the many wonderful bloggie friends<\/b> I’ve made in the past years of blogging. I am so blessed by the encouragement and challenges that I receive from so many of you.<\/p>\n
…for the ability to use Facebook<\/b> to stay in touch with friends old and new (and to arrange a get together with my friend and sister-out-law Joanna for when I’m next in Lincoln)<\/p>\n
…for the family e-mail list<\/b> that keeps me abreast of what’s going on in the Cook Clan<\/p>\n
…for the cell phones<\/b> that I and a new church friend can whip out of pockets, enabling us to exchange numbers so we can arrange to get together for lunch or coffee one of these days.<\/p>\n
…for the friends<\/b> who challenge me to examine my priorities in my online life<\/p>\n
…for the conviction of the Holy Spirit<\/b> regarding how I ought to spend my time, both on and off the web<\/p>\n
…for the real life opportunities<\/b> God has given me to minister to girls through my home and love of crafts<\/p>\n
I am so thankful that God has placed me at this time in history, with these technologies–so that I might use them to glorify Him and so that He may use them to conform me into the image of His Son.<\/p>\n
May my life, online and off, be a reflection of the greatness and holiness of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Social media can be a blessing and a curse. It has its pros and its cons. It has its worshipers and its detractors. I am thankful that God God has blessed me with many of the pros of social media, is redeeming me from the curse of many of the cons, and is teaching me … Read more Thankful Thursday: Social and other forms of media<\/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":[23,42],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395"}],"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=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}