{"id":1193,"date":"2024-12-30T18:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2024-12-30T18:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:26:19","slug":"1193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"Dear God"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>I wanted to share a story of lightness and humor. <br><br>This morning, God told me a joke which I have never experienced before. I was meditating and praying in my bed and thinking fondly of all that God provides for me. I asked God to send me an image of how He views our relationship. Almost instantly in my mind, I received a picture of a child in a harness, running ahead of a parent who was holding onto the leash. It made me laugh out loud immediately. I could feel God smiling with me. Then I got a second image. It was just me walking with an older Grandfatherly figure, hand in hand and side-by-side. <br><br>Of course that was comforting, knowing I have a companion who is all powerful and all knowing at my side all the time. But mostly, I appreciate it, the joke and the laugh, and knowing that he is my father in the same way that I think about my own children.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to share a story of lightness and humor. This morning, God told me a joke which I have never experienced before. I was meditating and praying in my bed and thinking fondly of all that God provides for me. I asked God to send me an image of how He views our relationship. Almost instantly in my mind, I received a picture of a child in a harness, running ahead of a parent who was holding onto the leash. It made me laugh out loud immediately. I could feel God smiling with me. Then I got a second image. It was just me walking with an older Grandfatherly figure, hand in hand and side-by-side. Of course that was comforting, knowing I have a companion who is all powerful and all knowing at my side all the time. But mostly, I appreciate it, the joke and the laugh, and knowing that he is my father in the same way that I think about my own children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebighopeletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}