{"id":1400,"date":"2012-11-24T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2012-11-15T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T19:03:00","slug":"thank-you-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=1400","title":{"rendered":"Thank You Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Give-Thanks-Unto-the-Lord.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1410\" title=\"Give Thanks Unto the Lord\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Give-Thanks-Unto-the-Lord-300x226.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving has come and gone but the spirit of thankfulness should remain in hearts all year round. Just saying a heartfelt \u201cThank you, Lord\u201d every day can do wonders for your soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank You, God, for little things<br \/>\nThat come unexpectedly<br \/>\nTo brighten up a dreary day<br \/>\nthat dawned so dismally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank You, God, for sending<br \/>\nA happy thought my way<br \/>\nTo blot out my sadness<br \/>\nOn a disappointing day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thank You, God for brushing<br \/>\nThe dark clouds from my mind<br \/>\nAnd leaving only sunshine<br \/>\nAnd joy of heart behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, God the list is endless<br \/>\nOf things to thank You for,<br \/>\nBut I take them all for granted<br \/>\nAnd unconsciously ignore<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That everything I think or do,<br \/>\nEach movement that I make,<br \/>\nEach measured rhythmic heartbeat,<br \/>\nEach breath of life I take<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Is something You have given me<br \/>\nFor which there is no way<br \/>\nFor me in all my smallness<br \/>\nTo in any way repay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>~Helen Steiner Rice<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Thanksgiving has come and gone but the spirit of thankfulness should remain in hearts all year round. Just saying a heartfelt \u201cThank you, Lord\u201d every day can do wonders for your soul. Thank You, God, for little things That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=1400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}