{"id":10085,"date":"2014-10-23T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T18:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2016-02-10T21:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T03:03:56","slug":"lessons-i-am-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/lessons-i-am-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons I am Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10086\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-1975-deer-hunt-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10086 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-1975-deer-hunt-2.jpg\" alt=\"1-1975 deer hunt 2\" width=\"650\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-1975-deer-hunt-2.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-1975-deer-hunt-2-300x253.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1-1975-deer-hunt-2-355x300.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My dad took this picture in 1975.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m still living with pain. I&#8217;m not going to share details, but I want to share what these weeks have taught me.<\/p>\n<p>1. I am a hopeful person. I keep telling myself that tomorrow will be a better day, and that seems to help. Hope is powerful.<\/p>\n<p>2. Pain makes me become so self-centered and it&#8217;s an awful feeling. One day this week someone called and asked me to help them with some sewing. I was so grateful for the relief from thinking about myself!\u00a0Providing service is a blessing, even (and especially) for those who have troubles of their own.<\/p>\n<p>3. There are people to help me. I have decided to be more proactive and seek help from a specialist, if necessary. When I showed up for some lab work, my Relief Society President was working there and helped me, and that\u00a0was a tender mercy to help me to feel encouraged and understood.<\/p>\n<p>4. Our lives and our bodies are a gift, no matter what we are feeling. I am grateful for shadow and light, pain and comfort, joy, and a little sorrow because every season can reveal God&#8217;s hand in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still living with pain. I&#8217;m not going to share details, but I want to share what these weeks have taught me. 1. I am a hopeful person. I keep telling myself that tomorrow will be a better day, and that seems to help. Hope is powerful. 2. Pain makes me become so self-centered and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/lessons-i-am-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lessons I am Learning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10085\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}