{"id":6678,"date":"2020-11-27T18:38:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teresalasher.com\/?p=6678"},"modified":"2020-11-27T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T18:38:29","slug":"grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/?p=6678","title":{"rendered":"Grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m trying my best to be GRATEFUL. After all, yesterday was the day of THANKSgiving\u2014all about the season of thankfulness; being grateful. We hosted a small gathering of four. Our daughter picked up my mother-in-law so we could be together. Plenty of food filled our table. There was no shortage of talk, laughter, and a good time. We tried not to focus on those who weren\u2019t around our table. Note to self: sometimes when there\u2019s so many people involved, it\u2019s tough to make individual, meaningful conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a few days before, I\u2019d received a call from the Assisted Living Facility where my Dad has been for the last two and a half years. He tested positive for COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What will the outcome be? I have no clue. But You do. Give our family the strength and wisdom to do\/say\/be according to Your will. Is it Dad\u2019s time to join Mom? Is it time to leave this isolated, confused, angry planet? For our sakes, I hope not! But for his sake\u2014Thy will be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever\u2026The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? The Lord is with me; he is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies \u2013 <\/em>Psalm 118:1, 6-7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m thinking now about these words <em>triumph on my enemies. <\/em>What enemies could he possibly mean? I thought of a few: Discontent, anger, comparison, fear, anxiety, doubt. All those enemies creep into in my thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Lord is my Shepherd I have all that I need. <\/em>This is true. The foundation of God\u2019s throne is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Righteousness (vs. dishonesty)<\/li><li>Justice (vs. unfair, unjust)<\/li><li>Love (vs. unloving, hate, scorn)<\/li><li>Faithfulness (vs. unfaithfulness, selfishness)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m thankful of the reminder that I need to focus on being GRATEFUL. We have so much. He is a good, good God. The Lord is with me. With us through it all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.S. Oh, and I forgot to add. We played a game. Yes, a GAME!! Now those of you who know our family know that my hubby, Steve, is not a gamer! Well, the four of us played our mandatory Thanksgiving Day game. Guess who won???&nbsp; Steve\u2019s Mom!&nbsp; Plus, it was a game she\u2019d never played before. Yay \u2013 way to go!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s prompt for the <a href=\"#Five Minute Friday\">#Five Minute Friday<\/a> group of writers is: Grateful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m trying my best to be GRATEFUL. After all, yesterday was the day of THANKSgiving\u2014all about the season of thankfulness; being grateful. We hosted a small gathering of four. Our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,38,17],"tags":[252,386,455,805,904,993],"class_list":["post-6678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-lifeisgood","category-love-attributes","tag-covid-19","tag-five-minute-friday","tag-grateful","tag-psalm","tag-shepherd","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teresalasher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}