{"id":19646,"date":"2018-04-17T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=19646"},"modified":"2018-04-16T22:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:05:32","slug":"from-a-distance-april-17-2018-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/from-a-distance-april-17-2018-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Reigns, April 17, 2018 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_19649\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19649\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jakes-Best-Friends-2017-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jakes-Best-Friends-2017-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jakes-Best-Friends-2017-600x531.jpg 600w, https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Jakes-Best-Friends-2017.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My youngest and his best friends from school<\/p><\/div>Last night I attended a parent meeting for my son&#8217;s class to fund raise for his 8th grade trip. It was the first meeting I have been able to attend at St. Bernard in quite some time. The last 4 years were consumed by earning my Master&#8217;s Degree and working full time. It felt good to be back in the building like a mom again. You see prior to working full time I stayed at home for 14 years. I worked part time, wrote, led retreats, and babysat. I also led a service learning program for the school for 9 years. I volunteered 15 hours\/week at the school. I was involved in my children&#8217;s service learning. I LOVED that time in my life. Last night I watched other moms step up and choose to lead. Now, that I am working full time and earning my Spiritual Direction Certification I still don&#8217;t have time to volunteer. I believe those 9 years were a very special time that I will hold dear to my heart. I am in a new chapter of life. It is fruitful and life giving as well in different ways. I am appreciative to those who are taking the reigns for St. Bernard. <\/p>\n<p>There are different chapters in our lives. I have turned the page to a new one but the past will always be held dear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new chapter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1927,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19646"}],"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=19646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}