{"id":301,"date":"2010-11-05T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2010-11-05T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T18:57:00","slug":"only-love-can-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Only Love Can Do This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TNRVSXby0II\/AAAAAAAAJyA\/nadU9YZZqEw\/s1600\/DSC06739.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_It9KDpK7ADM\/TNRVSXby0II\/AAAAAAAAJyA\/nadU9YZZqEw\/s320\/DSC06739.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536143615961780354\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>My children drive me to my knees to pray in two very different ways.  In the days of joy and peace I feast my eye on the beautiful little things in this mommy world of mine and bending my knees in prayer I express thankfulness and amazement at all my blessings.  Days of struggle and stress with my children send me falling to my knees in search of help and comfort.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a week of loving so much it hurts.  Struggles in each little child&#8217;s life surround me!  They all need me at the same time and all reject my loving hand of discipline and guidance at the same time.  It has been so tiring I fell asleep for four hours yesterday in the middle of the day!<\/p>\n<p>Today I found the determination to enjoy the day in spite of it all.  Put on some Carolyn <span>Arends<\/span> acoustic music.  Finally put the cheep little chocolate bars away, that are so readily available thanks to the last ridiculous holiday, they where making me feel worse anyhow&#8230;  Took the time and prepared a walnut salad, goat cheese on my favorite crackers and a little bubbly.  Being my mothers daughter I put my bubbly in a pretty wine glass even though it wasn&#8217;t the real thing.  I sat and ate and sipped and felt just special enough to get on with the good fight.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to spend more time on my knees waiting for some clear guidance for each child, in hope that my parenting ability will not reach a limit and I will be thanking Jesus for the strength that I already feel welling up within me, the strength to keep loving even when it hurts.<\/p>\n<p><span>TTFN<\/span><br \/><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--Session data--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My children drive me to my knees to pray in two very different ways. In the days of joy and peace I feast my eye on the beautiful little things in this mommy world of mine and bending my knees in prayer I express thankfulness and amazement at all my blessings. Days of struggle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9,12,16,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ladymacblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}