{"id":7999,"date":"2011-10-06T05:56:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2011-10-06T05:56:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T10:56:53","slug":"thankful-thursday-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111006-7999.htm","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Thursday: Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s little more beautiful than Indian summer, the time between the seasons when the days are warm and the nights get cool. I&#8217;m so glad to live in a place where I can enjoy the literal seasons&#8211;and so glad that God gives me seasons in my life as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To everything there is a season,<br \/>\n      A time for every purpose under heaven:<br \/>\n~Ecclesiastes 3:1<\/p><\/blockquote>\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>grass growing slowly<\/i> so it doesn&#8217;t show that I barely mow<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>flaming sunsets<\/i> in my rearview mirror as I drive home from Grand Island<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>leaves turning color<\/i> and dropping on the ground, signaling the turn of the year<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>menu seasons<\/i> that will come to an end (Thank You, Lord, that I don&#8217;t have to do this extra 20 hour a week menu work for more than 8 weeks out of the year.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>anticipating<\/i> the seasons to come. Thinking about Christmas and 2012 (my care plans are now dated with target dates in 2012&#8211;so my mind is going there too). Coming up with ideas for my 27th birthday (so maybe I&#8217;m jumping the gun on that one, but I&#8217;ve got a TERRIFIC party idea.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<i>a God who is unchanging amidst every season&#8217;s change<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Summer and winter and<br \/>\nSpringtime and Harvest<br \/>\nSun, moon, and stars<br \/>\nin their courses above<br \/>\nJoin with all nature in<br \/>\nmanifold witness<br \/>\nto Thy great faithfulness,<br \/>\nmercy and love<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s little more beautiful than Indian summer, the time between the seasons when the days are warm and the nights get cool. I&#8217;m so glad to live in a place where I can enjoy the literal seasons&#8211;and so glad that God gives me seasons in my life as well. &#8220;To everything there is a season, &#8230; <a title=\"Thankful Thursday: Seasons\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20111006-7999.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thankful Thursday: Seasons<\/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\/7999"}],"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=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}