{"id":10630,"date":"2015-03-13T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T17:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:40:12","slug":"aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Aware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I love how painting helps me to focus, find beauty, appreciate color, and marvel at God’s creations. I become more aware of my Creator as I paint.<\/p>\n

It is good to be aware of things outside ourselves.<\/p>\n

I live in a home within a neighborhood and create a little kingdom within my walls. In the business of working and relaxing in my home, sometimes it’s easy to forget my neighbors. But if the walls were lifted, I would become aware of just how closely situated I am to others. Perhaps I’d see that my Heavenly Father places many more people within my reach than I think. Perhaps I’d be less likely to stay inside or in my own space because I would be aware of the needs of my friends.<\/p>\n

One act that is helping me to be more anxious for my neighbors’ needs is studying the Gospels in the New Testament. As I write out answers to “thought questions” from Julie Smith’s Search Ponder and Pray: A Guide to the Gospels with my study, I have seen the faces of my neighbors as I have asked how I can apply the teachings of Christ. I have felt promptings to do many things out of my comfort zone. I have a lot to learn.<\/p>\n

When I wonder if I should reach out, I think of the image of people sitting in their homes, isolated, but really just feet away from one another. I see that barriers such as age or experience, religion or wealth needn’t separate us and that I can and should make that walk to someone’s home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love how painting helps me to focus, find beauty, appreciate color, and marvel at God’s creations. I become more aware of my Creator as I paint. It is good to be aware of things outside ourselves. I live in a home within a neighborhood and create a little kingdom within my walls. In the … Continue reading Aware<\/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-10630","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\/10630","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=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10637,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/10637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}