{"id":763,"date":"2011-10-07T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/?p=763"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T17:46:45","slug":"blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/?p=763","title":{"rendered":"BLESSED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;ve gotten here. I&#8217;m not sure how so much time has passed since I&#8217;ve thought about it, but it has&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I am so incredibly BLESSED. Not because I have things or money or a good job, although I am blessed by those things as well (and I hope to use them to bless others in whatever way I possibly can). But I am BLESSED because God has put so MANY wonderful people in my life. <\/p>\n<p>I am BLESSED by Baby Girl and the way that only God has worked out all of the details surrounding her little life so far. Her life could have been a story of heartache after heartache, of long months and years waiting for her to come along, but it wasn&#8217;t. God knew my heart could not handle that right now. Her little life could have been a story filled with physical pain and sickness on my part, but it wasn&#8217;t. God knew my heart could not handle that right now. Baby Girl&#8217;s story is one of incredible JOY. It is one of THANKFULNESS. All of my deep fears regarding trying to get pregnant were completely obliterated because I never had to face any of them. Not ONE of them has come to fruition in any way shape or form. How could that be anything other than God? I am so THANKFUL for this gift. <\/p>\n<p>This has been my &#8216;I am extremely BLESSED&#8217; thought for the day. What is yours? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I&#8217;ve gotten here. I&#8217;m not sure how so much time has passed since I&#8217;ve thought about it, but it has&#8230;. I am so incredibly BLESSED. Not &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized","has-meta has-sticky-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravaeerickson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}