{"id":6662,"date":"2025-01-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T01:06:00","slug":"storms-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6662","title":{"rendered":"Storms of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Short and sweet thought for the week\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-709x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6663\" width=\"210\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-709x1024.jpg 709w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-600x867.jpg 600w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-1063x1536.jpg 1063w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-1418x2048.jpg 1418w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-1320x1907.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Storms-of-Life-churchartpro-scaled.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I must admit I get a little discouraged thinking about the storms of life. It seems like every time I turn around a friend or family member is going through another disheartening disaster. Cancer has threatened a loved one\u2019s life. Fire has demolished a friend\u2019s house. An unexpected death has left a family in turmoil. There are no words of comfort to console a weary soul. Prayer is our lifeline to help those in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a thought I cling to when storms of life rage: Sometimes God calms the storm but when He doesn\u2019t, God can calm the child. Only God can bring comfort out of chaos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>\u201cThe Lord will give strength to His people. The Lord will<br>bless His people with peace.&#8221; ~Psalms 29:11<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short and sweet thought for the week\u2026 I must admit I get a little discouraged thinking about the storms of life. It seems like every time I turn around a friend or family member is going through another disheartening disaster. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6662\">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\/6662"}],"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=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6667,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions\/6667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}