{"id":1073,"date":"2014-11-27T07:39:25","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2014-11-27T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T12:41:16","slug":"thankful-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/thankful-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Thankful Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, thoughts of Thanksgiving Day brought me to reflect upon all the things I have for which I am truly thankful. Drumroll, please \u2014 here&#8217;s my list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful to God for my very life and everything in it.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for salvation through Jesus Christ &#8211; God coming to Earth to die for sinful humanity, in order that we would become His children.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for Godly, loving, selfless parents. I&#8217;ll always treasure their Christian example, wise advice and unconditional love.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for the joy of raising two smart, funny, creative, musical and\/or analytical boys who love God.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for a Godly wife who lovingly raises her children, works to help the family and remains committed to our marriage no matter what.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for a church family to help me grow closer to Christ, my family and others; for solid Scriptural teaching; and the opportunity to sing and play music for God.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for a complete and fully-functional body and brain, with which I can enjoy and develop the talents God has given me, time with my family and friends, and the occasional frivolity.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for my job, good coworkers, being able to provide for my family, and transportation to get to work and elsewhere.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for the generosity of strangers and friends; we&#8217;ve been blessed many times.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m thankful for a heated, lighted home, and more good things in my life than I often acknowledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it&#8217;s a good start. What&#8217;s on yours?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.&#8221;<\/em> -Psalm 107:1, NIV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, thoughts of Thanksgiving Day brought me to reflect upon all the things I have for which I am truly thankful. Drumroll, please \u2014 here&#8217;s my list: I&#8217;m thankful to God for my very life and everything in it. I&#8217;m thankful for salvation through Jesus Christ &#8211; God coming to Earth to die for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}