{"id":811,"date":"2008-02-29T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=811"},"modified":"2008-02-29T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T10:17:11","slug":"better-days-2008-theme-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"better days: update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>some of you know that i am all about themes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kristiapplesauce.typepad.com\/kristi\/2008\/02\/theme.html\">kristi<\/a> just wrote a post about her newly discovered theme. and its definitely a good one: &#8220;whatever it takes to save a child&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>i wrote about my theme at the beginning of the year because i do these like you would &#8220;new years resolutions&#8221;. i think one&#8217;s purpose and ways of achieving said purpose can vary and change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>from trying to figure out what my 2008 theme, &#8220;better days&#8221; was going to mean, here&#8217;s what i&#8217;ve come to realize from it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>there are better days ahead because of people like <a href=\"http:\/\/kristiapplesauce.typepad.com\">kristi &#038; dan<\/a> &#8211; on the <a href=\"http:\/\/oceansofmercy.com\">frontline<\/a>. there are better days ahead because of people like <a href=\"http:\/\/whittakerwoman.typepad.com\">heather<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ragemuffinsoul.com\">carlos<\/a>, adopting losiah from a korean orphanage. there are better days ahead because his birth mother let him have life. there are better days ahead because of the children i sponsor through <a href=\"http:\/\/onelifechild.org\">child<\/a> sponsorship <a href=\"http:\/\/compassion.com\">programs<\/a>. there are better days ahead because God allows me to work in a thriving and giving <a href=\"http:\/\/westsidefamilychurch.com\">church<\/a> that is a vehicle of opportunity for others to do ministry. there are better days ahead because we&#8217;re leaving in 12 days for a missions to south africa &#8211; loving the sick, abandoned and desolate. there are better days ahead because <a href=\"http:\/\/flowerdust.net\">anne<\/a> is writing a <a href=\"http:\/\/madchurchdisease.com\">book<\/a> about the real issues facing us all in church leadership. there better days ahead because women are being open and honest about their struggles with sexual addiction.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and there are better days ahead because i refuse to believe any longer that we: the wealthy, the impoverish, the diseased &#038; the neglected have to live a life of complacency. that is not how we were created to live. be a part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>better days are ahead.<br \/>\nhold fast, help is on the way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I wish everyone was loved tonight<br \/>\nAnd somehow stop this endless fight<br \/>\nJust a chance that maybe we&#8217;ll find better days<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some of you know that i am all about themes. kristi just wrote a post about her newly discovered theme. and its definitely a good one: &#8220;whatever it takes to save a child&#8221; i wrote about my theme at the beginning of the year because i do these like you would &#8220;new years resolutions&#8221;. i&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=811\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">better days: update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,17,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-africa-mission","category-child-sponsorship","category-church","category-cultural","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}