{"id":173,"date":"2020-06-26T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:33:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T09:33:43","slug":"aging-with-thankfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/26\/aging-with-thankfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"Aging with Thankfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">As a young child, thankful for moments with Mom and Dad,<br \/>\nWith such busy lives, special times were hard to be had.<br \/>\nAs a teen with an active mind and worries galore,<br \/>\nThankful for many friends made the spirit want to soar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">A youthful adult with the reality of responsibility,<br \/>\nYearns for the thankfulness to share life with one of compatibility.<br \/>\nWhat rooftop to dwell under and where to daily work?<br \/>\nA place to call home and thankful for no more schoolwork.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Happily married and someone to share life with brings such a great joy.<br \/>\nAh! The thankfulness of holding a small bundle of a girl or boy.<br \/>\nYears go by, times of happiness mixed with problems and much daily work.<br \/>\nThankfulness comes when the bills are paid and all is well with the bank clerk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">The bundles of joy are grown up into adulthood now,<br \/>\nThankfulness comes when the parental guidance they allow.<br \/>\nThe bundles are gone and have flown into lives of their own,<br \/>\nThankful they are following God on His majestic throne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Physically feeling lonelier, weaker, and older,<br \/>\nThankful for the spouse that has been the daily upholder.<br \/>\nWho shared the problems, daily work, and raising the bundles of joy,<br \/>\nNot many days left for thankfulness of the bond life did employ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Things once taken for granted-walking, dressing, eating,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thankfulness has a new face in things that are fleeting.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Who is this in the mirror all wrinkled and alone?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thankfulness for God who has been the lifelong backbone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-177 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rose-1-photo-cropped-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rose-1-photo-cropped-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rose-1-photo-cropped-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rose-1-photo-cropped-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rose-1-photo-cropped-2048x1408.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a young child, thankful for moments with Mom and Dad, With such busy lives, special times were hard to be had. As a teen &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[61,60,59,97,78,96,84,57,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonbeamsandshadows.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}