There is a growing list of uncertainties as we get older.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— thinking of things that might\/will happen (worry)
— surprises that catch us off-guard (oh no)
— slowing down (difficult)
— getting weaker (dealing with it)
— forgetting more (with anxiety)
— limited manual labor (can’t do it)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There remains a list of certainties that count.
— getting closer to God
— getting stronger in faith (sometimes because you have to)
— more treasured Bible verses
— more prayer
— more thinking of heaven
— more thanking
— more talking about Jesus
— slowing down (positive—SLOW in search box)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is a growing list of uncertainties as we get older. — thinking of things that might\/will happen (worry)— surprises that catch us off-guard (oh no)— slowing down (difficult)— getting weaker (dealing with it)— forgetting more (with anxiety)— limited manual labor (can’t do it) There remains a list of certainties that count.— getting closer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-health","category-inspire_lifter","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279"}],"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=7279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7365,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions\/7365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}