{"id":2274,"date":"2010-05-27T11:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2010-05-27T12:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:58:08","slug":"im-going-to-cover-our-patio-with-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/im-going-to-cover-our-patio-with-these\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going to cover our patio with these"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2273\" title=\"chair\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chair.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/chair-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a friend&#8217;s funeral on Saturday and the news of my nephew&#8217;s cancer this week, it feels like treason that life should go on. I carry so many people in my heart these days (and I think that I mean the heart of my spirit). So, even if I blog about something silly like lounge chairs, I am still praying for my dear ones and hoping for peace and comfort for all. My pillow is wet with tears each night, as is my shirt as I find myself driving with tears streaming down my face. I find myself worried that people might see the dried tears on my face that seem to crackle when I try to smile. With our faith we will make it through and I plan to make life as joyful as I can.<\/p>\n<p>I will be pursuing some very simple joys. I&#8217;m getting some lawn chairs. We&#8217;ll be having more outdoor parties lit with Christmas lights and Japanese lanterns. We&#8217;ll have long afternoons together reading and playing in the sprinklers. This also means there will be more hugging and fewer rants about a messy floor. It probably means I&#8217;ll make dessert now and then, too.<\/p>\n<p>Life is teaching me to Grab the Memories and Make them Count.<\/p>\n<p>I finished reading Julia Child&#8217;s memoir of her life in Paris. I have no interest in French cooking or any other kind of cooking these days, but the words were a delight and a retreat.\u00a0 I loved the book because her voice broke through the mass of words (many in French&#8230;argh!). I was reminded of the attraction a person holds when she loves what she doing and she is pursuing a worthy goal.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be like that, not with cooking, but in my pursuit of the abundant life, which is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A life of peace and service,<\/li>\n<li>A life of\u00a0 sacrifice mixed with spontaneous delightful memories,<\/li>\n<li>A life lived worthily and capably, giving credit to the True Source of all that is good,<\/li>\n<li>A life full of Christ-centered and family focused events and pastimes,<\/li>\n<li>A life savored during the good times and cherished during the bad,<\/li>\n<li>A life that nurtures a real relationship with my Father in Heaven.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hoping you are finding joy pursuing your own abundant life,<\/p>\n<p>Angie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a friend&#8217;s funeral on Saturday and the news of my nephew&#8217;s cancer this week, it feels like treason that life should go on. I carry so many people in my heart these days (and I think that I mean the heart of my spirit). So, even if I blog about something silly like lounge &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/05\/im-going-to-cover-our-patio-with-these\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m going to cover our patio with these<\/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-2274","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\/2274","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=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}