{"id":1678,"date":"2013-02-10T08:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2013-02-11T08:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T14:41:59","slug":"i-made-my-daddy-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"I MADE MY DADDY HAPPY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AND MAMA TOO.<\/p>\n<p>When I was very young, on the way home from church I shared the Bible verse I learned in Sunday School, &#8220;We love Him because He first loved us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I was in my 20&#8217;s, teaching fourth graders in a Christian school 1500 miles away, I heard my dad say numerous times on the phone, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad you&#8217;re telling those little lambs about Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someday I&#8217;ll sing with Mom and Dad,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice<\/p>\n<p>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To worship You.\u00a0 Oh my soul, rejoice.<\/p>\n<p>Take joy, my King [My Heavenly Daddy], in what you hear;<\/p>\n<p>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May it be a sweet, sweet sound in Your ear.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AND MAMA TOO. When I was very young, on the way home from church I shared the Bible verse I learned in Sunday School, &#8220;We love Him because He first loved us.&#8221; When I was in my 20&#8217;s, teaching fourth graders in a Christian school 1500 miles away, I heard my dad say numerous times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-family","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}