{"id":1648,"date":"2013-05-15T20:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T02:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daisysgarden.ca\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2013-05-15T20:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T02:17:36","slug":"joyfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/15\/joyfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few Sundays ago, my Pastor said something that struck me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rid yourself of everything that doesn&#8217;t bring you Joy.&#8221; I agree. It really struck me. I decided that this was how I would measure things that come up in my life. I need to bring Joy to my household, including my kids. This is one way I do it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisysgarden.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/not-heavy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1649\" alt=\"not heavy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daisysgarden.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/not-heavy.jpg\" width=\"442\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bible tells us in Matthew 11:28-30<\/p>\n<p>New International Version (NIV)<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><sup>28\u00a0<\/sup>\u201cCome to me,\u00a0all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.\u00a0<sup>29\u00a0<\/sup>Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,\u00a0for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.\u00a0<sup>30\u00a0<\/sup>For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8230;I have taken His rest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daisysgarden.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Signature1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1081\" alt=\"Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daisysgarden.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Signature1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few Sundays ago, my Pastor said something that struck me. &#8220;Rid yourself of everything that doesn&#8217;t bring you Joy.&#8221; I agree. It really struck me. I decided that this was how I would measure things that come up in my life. I need to bring Joy to my household, including my kids. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[116,135,136,139,198],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9ZCqT-qA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}