{"id":23915,"date":"2022-12-22T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=23915"},"modified":"2022-12-26T10:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T16:00:41","slug":"just-the-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2022\/12\/just-the-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Here we are at Hale Center Theater to see A Christmas Carol. It was wonderful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Temple Square<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Tim turned 20 this week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

To celebrate Tim’s birthday, Richard and I made a temple appointment. As I finished our temple session and entered the celestial room, I was greeted by a temple worker as I never have before. He simply said “Hi,” not a more formal “hello” or reverent nod, but a joyful “Hi!” It made me think of the welcome I hope for in heaven, just a familiar “Hi.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last Sunday at dinner, I gave a simple baby in a manger to each of our children for Christmas, a reminder that Christmas takes different forms during our lives, and sometimes it feels incomplete, with a loss or absence of a loved one. I have learned that Christmas can still be celebrated without the full scene. The simplest Nativity, without any of the other characters surrounding Christ, is still complete because of the Baby in the manger. Christ is the only essential, and he is always there. I also believe He wants a familiarity with us, a relationship that will continue forever. I believe he also wants to greet us with a familiar, “Hi,” someday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate Tim’s birthday, Richard and I made a temple appointment. As I finished our temple session and entered the celestial room, I was greeted by a temple worker as I never have before. He simply said “Hi,” not a more formal “hello” or reverent nod, but a joyful “Hi!” It made me think of … Continue reading Just the Baby<\/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":[13,40,36,39,20,5,34,4,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-hope","category-jesus-christ","category-joy","category-life-according-to-angela","category-marriage","category-missionary","category-motherhood","category-temple-and-family-history-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915","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=23915"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23939,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915\/revisions\/23939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}