{"id":1035,"date":"2021-11-16T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2021-11-16T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:27:24","slug":"giving-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cobalt glass on the windowsill.<br>The tree slowly turning to flame across the way.<br>The smells of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and ginger.<br>Crisp, juicy-sweet apples.<br>Hugs that let me know I am not alone.<br>These are things I am thankful for today&#8211;<br>The offerings of praise lifted up<br>To recognize Your beauty, Your goodness,<br>painted across the canvas of Your creation.<br>I can taste and see that You are good, <br>And I will lift up my worship against the Darkness,<br>Hold fast to the Truth that has overcome.<br>There is hope that waits for the Morning,<br>And thanks-giving is our battle song.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth&#8230;.I sought the Lord and He answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who  look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.<\/em><\/p><cite><em>Psalm 34:1, 4-5<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">~~~~~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8230;&#8217;God is good&#8217;\u00a0is not a stale one-liner when all\u2019s\u00a0 happy but a saving\u00a0lifeline\u00a0when all\u2019s hard&#8230;.And every time I give thanks, I confess to the universe the goodness of God.<\/em><\/p><cite><em>Ann VosKamp<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cobalt glass on the windowsill.The tree slowly turning to flame across the way.The smells of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and ginger.Crisp, juicy-sweet apples.Hugs that let me know I am not alone.These are things I am thankful for today&#8211;The offerings of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/?p=1035\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,20,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance-and-gratitude","category-faith-in-action","category-god-is-enough"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvNH-gH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3857,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/laurel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}