{"id":18173,"date":"2017-07-13T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=18173"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T15:14:07","slug":"looking-july-13-2017-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/looking-july-13-2017-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking, July 13, 2017 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Brown-County-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Brown-County-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Brown-County-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Brown-County.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Brown-County-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Yesterday, I had the pleasure of going to Lakeside, a pool club, that has more than a pool. It is very different from normal pools. It was an old quarry that was filled in and they created several pools within it. Normally, when I go to the pool or other places with my children in the summertime I always bring my Master&#8217;s workload with me, books, notebooks, and questions I have to answer. This time I left everything behind (on purpose). Instead, I laid down on a float and followed my children around. Eventually I just looked at the water in the distance and close to me. I watched as the sun danced off the ripples. I looked beyond the children laughing, and the parents relaxing and found myself looking at the beauty and serenity of the ripples in the water. The water moved with a smooth uniformity, the sun flashed and fell across the tops of the ripples, I was mesmerized. I was lost in a moment of presence. It was peaceful and pure relaxation.<\/p>\n<p>It is rare in my life to be still and watch anything for very long. I have too many tasks to accomplish, places to go, and deadlines to tend to. I know intellectually that living in the moment, in the present time, is a life well lived. It is a challenge as a mother and a person within our busy culture. However, yesterday I did it and it was good. <\/p>\n<p>Try it in your life today. Find a moment and settle into looking beyond the distractions and let yourself enjoy the present. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t have time to live in the moment&#8230; should we make the time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1831,454,486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18173"}],"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=18173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}