{"id":4153,"date":"2014-09-08T07:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2014-09-08T07:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T12:36:02","slug":"looking-back-on-the-longest-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Looking back on the longest year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/footsteps_ip_3747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/2014\/09\/footsteps_ip_3747.jpg\" alt=\"footsteps_ip_3747\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/footsteps_ip_3747.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/footsteps_ip_3747-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/images\/2014\/09\/footsteps_ip_3747-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;d like to start out this week by pointing out that of all the blessings my family and I have received through the past year&#8217;s trials, we have deserved NONE of them.\u00a0 They are the grace of God.\u00a0 All the answered prayers, the people who stepped in to help, the healing and provision&#8230;they are a gift from above. We could earn NONE of them by any goodness on our part or by any bad things we&#8217;ve endured. All serve instead as a testament of the grace, mercy, and love shown to us by our Lord and Savior. We&#8217;re so thankful and look forward to a &#8220;light at the end of the tunnel&#8221; as it appears that we may be on the tail end of many of our health issues and other setbacks. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to start out this week by pointing out that of all the blessings my family and I have received through the past year&#8217;s trials, we have deserved NONE of them.\u00a0 They are the grace of God.\u00a0 All the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4153\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expository","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}