{"id":6323,"date":"2024-02-24T23:51:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T05:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2024-02-24T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T05:51:39","slug":"when-reality-doesnt-make-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6323","title":{"rendered":"WHEN REALITY DOESN&#8217;T MAKE SENSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some thoughts from and inspired by<br>Peter Rosenberger &#8211; &#8220;Hope For The Family Caregiver&#8221; on afr.net<br>He knows whereof he speaks&#8212;caregiver for his wife for decades.<br>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br>&#8220;Confusing the American dream with the Christian life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Peter says when his wife Gracie enters a room, she immediately creates a theological conversation, without even saying a word.<br>She doesn&#8217;t have to offer a profound explanation for the will of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Something beautiful, something good;<br>     All my confusion He understood.<br>All I had to offer Him<br>     Was loneliness and strife,<br>But He made something beautiful<br>     Of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How to trust Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can I trust Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do I know I can trust Him . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;His scars make it possible to trust Him with my scars.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some thoughts from and inspired byPeter Rosenberger &#8211; &#8220;Hope For The Family Caregiver&#8221; on afr.netHe knows whereof he speaks&#8212;caregiver for his wife for decades.&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;&#8220;Confusing the American dream with the Christian life.&#8221; Peter says when his wife Gracie enters a room, she immediately creates a theological conversation, without even saying a word.She doesn&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,3,14,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-family","category-health","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323"}],"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=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6324,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions\/6324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}