{"id":6669,"date":"2025-03-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6669"},"modified":"2025-02-28T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T00:50:08","slug":"today-is-a-gift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6669","title":{"rendered":"Today Is a Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6672\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Today-is-a-gift...-churchartpro-1320x1320.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each morning when I wake up, I immediately thank God for another day of life and ask Him to help me align my will to His so I am ready for whatever comes my way. When we think of life as the most precious gift we could receive, it is wise to live each day with intention and reverence. Living in the present allows us to face each new day as one with endless possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each new day is a gift. That\u2019s why they call it \u201cthe present!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThis is the day that the Lord has made. We will<br>rejoice and be glad in it.&#8221; ~Psalm 118:24<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short and sweet thought for the week\u2026 Each morning when I wake up, I immediately thank God for another day of life and ask Him to help me align my will to His so I am ready for whatever comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6669\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=6669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6713,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6669\/revisions\/6713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}