{"id":17591,"date":"2017-03-24T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T09:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=17591"},"modified":"2017-03-23T21:25:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T01:25:26","slug":"pause-moment-march-24-2017-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/pause-moment-march-24-2017-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Pause for a Moment, March 24, 2017 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_17592\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17592\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20160405_124921-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20160405_124921-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20160405_124921-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20160405_124921.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/20160405_124921-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Place to Catch your breath<\/p><\/div>We, as a culture, rarely pause long enough to catch our breath much less realize what we are breathing<\/p>\n<p>We are a people enticed by the world, energized by motion and engaged by pleasure<\/p>\n<p>When God created the light in the darkness\u2026the love in the world\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Was His intent that we simply live<\/p>\n<p>Or was His intent that we live simply?<\/p>\n<p>Living simply is not to be equated with a dirt floor and no furniture<\/p>\n<p>Living simply is living without excess of materialism, negative thoughts, and too many tasks<\/p>\n<p>Our lives are multi tasked, not single actions,<\/p>\n<p>Our lives are a blur of things we have checked off a list and a calendar of things yet to check off<\/p>\n<p>How then do we catch our breath and discover the rhythm of our lives<\/p>\n<p>How then will we sit still when the motion is what propels us?<\/p>\n<p>Stop, simply put, Stop<\/p>\n<p>Not forever, just for a time, just for a few minutes each day<\/p>\n<p>Stop and breathe\u2026 inhale goodness and exhale pollution<\/p>\n<p>In that moment close your eyes to your schedules and open your mind to God<\/p>\n<p>In that silence simply be at peace, listen for the breathing and embrace the goodness that fills your lungs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pause, Stop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[629,636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591"}],"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=17591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}