{"id":1651,"date":"2013-05-14T20:30:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daisysgarden.ca\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2013-05-14T20:30:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T02:30:47","slug":"twenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/14\/twenty\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today it has been Twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Years since I moved here.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Years since I first had a hard time making new friends.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Years since I learned that everyone wasn&#8217;t always as nice as they seemed.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty Years since I really realized Family always has your back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Twenty Years I have also gained wonderful sisters who I won&#8217;t trade for anything.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned what it means to love and then lose&#8230;and then have relationship restored.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned what it means to not always take the easy road, but the one less traveled.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned how to be a good friend, and how to leave the ones that drag you down, behind.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned that this isn&#8217;t just the whole world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve traveled.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve packed up friends and family who have moved from this place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve considered leaving. But something holds me.<\/p>\n<p>That I still don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>But what I know is that if it weren&#8217;t for this place, God would have had to do so much more to get me here.<\/p>\n<p>He was always guiding. \u00a0I had to be here to get to where I am.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in a place of trusting Him right now.<\/p>\n<p>At first, I was upset about that.<\/p>\n<p>But then I realized&#8230;in Twenty years, I haven&#8217;t really not had that experience.<\/p>\n<p>There was always a general idea of the next step.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So here I am. Waiting for what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p>I trust, He has it all planned out.<\/p>\n<p>Even as I sit in a season of rest and trust.<\/p>\n<p>I can for the first time in Twenty years, hear clearly. Deeply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And that, my friends, is what Twenty years does.<\/p>\n<p>It builds Trust.<\/p>\n<p>Trust in a Saviour who is so much bigger, in control, than I ever need to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today it has been Twenty years. Twenty Years since I moved here. Twenty Years since I first had a hard time making new friends. Twenty Years since I learned that everyone wasn&#8217;t always as nice as they seemed. Twenty Years since I really realized Family always has your back. &nbsp; In Twenty Years I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,106,135,136,138,139,198,207,208,247],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9ZCqT-twenty","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proverbs31momma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}