{"id":7883,"date":"2011-09-22T07:29:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T12:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=7883"},"modified":"2011-09-22T07:29:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T12:29:35","slug":"thankful-thursday-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110922-7883.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along the way, my life fell out of order. My to-do-list sprawled with things I couldn&#8217;t get done, my rooms filled up with clutter I didn&#8217;t have time or energy to deal with, my days became frantic jumps from aimless activity to aimless activity.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, by the grace of God, things seem to be coming back into order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/category\/thankfulness\/thankful-thursday\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" src=\"images\/buttons\/thankfulthursday.jpg\" title=\"Thankful Thursday banner\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"400\" height=\"133\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>This week I&#8217;m thankful for&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>new clothes hangers<\/i> so that all my clothes can now be hung properly instead of piled about my bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>newly-designed planner pages<\/i> which help bring some long-lost order to my daily routines (and enable me to eat breakfast again!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>a long screw<\/i> holding my towel rack up so I can again have some order in my bathroom<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>starting to catch up<\/i> at work, which makes my days oh-so-less-stressful<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>scheduled evenings<\/i> which counter-intuitively make my life more peaceful (that is, scheduled evenings that are consistent)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>a God of order<\/i> as opposed to a god of chaos<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?<br \/>\n      Tell Me, if you have understanding.<br \/>\nWho determined its measurements?<br \/>\n      Surely you know!<br \/>\n      Or who stretched the line upon it?<br \/>\nTo what were its foundations fastened?<br \/>\n      Or who laid its cornerstone,<br \/>\nWhen the morning stars sang together,<br \/>\n      And all the sons of God shouted for joy?<br \/>\nOr who shut in the sea with doors,<br \/>\n      When it burst forth and issued from the womb;<br \/>\nWhen I made the clouds its garment,<br \/>\n      And thick darkness its swaddling band;<br \/>\nWhen I fixed My limit for it,<br \/>\n      And set bars and doors;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~Job 38:4-10<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The God who made the universe, who set its boundaries and ordered every star, this is the God I serve, the Lord of heaven and earth. Praise be to the King of Kings and the God of gods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along the way, my life fell out of order. My to-do-list sprawled with things I couldn&#8217;t get done, my rooms filled up with clutter I didn&#8217;t have time or energy to deal with, my days became frantic jumps from aimless activity to aimless activity. Yet, by the grace of God, things seem to be &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: Order\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110922-7883.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: Order<\/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\/7883"}],"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=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}