{"id":1076,"date":"2009-10-06T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2009-10-06T23:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T03:19:05","slug":"its-free-october-1-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/its-free-october-1-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Free, October 6 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Jake

Jake getting some candy.<\/p><\/div>\n

What will you get after you put your quarter in the little candy machine?\u00a0 How many sprees, M&M’s or skittles?\u00a0 Do we count how many pieces of candy land in our hand?\u00a0 When you were a kid and you had the correct coin to slide down into the dispenser did you wait in anxious anticipation of the taste that would soon explode on your tongue?<\/p>\n

It was one of the items I never counted.\u00a0 I just wanted to eat the candy.\u00a0 How many things in our lives now do we not count?\u00a0 Is there anything that we just derive pleasure from without over thinking?<\/p>\n

God gives us a free sunrise every single morning.\u00a0 God gives us nature that surrounds us every day.\u00a0 God gives us the air to breathe and the sun’s warmth upon our faces to feel His presence.\u00a0 God gives us the sounds of nature, the birds chirping, the squirrels chewing on their acorns and\u00a0the bees buzzing about in the clover.\u00a0 God gives us a sunset every evening and then wraps the sky with stars every night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

God\u00a0gives us all of His creations for free.\u00a0 There is no where to slide the coin,\u00a0no register to ring up the price of\u00a0hearing nature, no where to slide our plastic so we can pay for it eventually.\u00a0 It’s all there for us to take in if we choose to see it.\u00a0 If we choose to look and not count but truly derive pure pleasure from His presence in Nature.<\/p>\n

So today put your quarter and credit card away and take a few minutes to look around you when you go outside.\u00a0 Breathe it in, listen with your eyes closed and then open them to the beauty God has blanketed us with.\u00a0 Just\u00a0let the soothing part of nature bring you a simple free pleasure that will make your senses\u00a0appreciate\u00a0it all. Like the child we were waiting in anticiapation of that taste on our tongue may we wait in anticiaption of that next sunset.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What will you get after you put your quarter in the little candy machine?\u00a0 How many sprees, M&M’s or skittles?\u00a0 Do we count how many pieces of candy land in our hand?\u00a0 When you were a kid and you had the correct coin to slide down into the dispenser did you wait in anxious anticipation of the taste that would soon explode on your tongue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[251,163,43,250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}