{"id":28222,"date":"2024-08-18T17:15:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T23:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=28222"},"modified":"2024-08-18T21:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T03:36:21","slug":"after-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/08\/after-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"After the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I drove through a heavy rainstorm on Saturday to attend a niece’s temple endowment. I was flustered by my commute and ran from my car to the unfamiliar temple in the rain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was greeted in the usual way by young and old temple workers, ushered through new halls, and given spiritual assurances that my visit was important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You’d think that after years of temple attendance that these things wouldn’t surprise me, but that is the way with joyful things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Surprise!” Joy cries, as it jumps out from a hiding place such as a rainy day or a challenging relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a time when I didn’t think I would ever see this niece again because of family difficulties, but I was invited to be with her on her important day. Poised and happy, she greeted me in the celestial room with a hug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, when I walked outside, the clouds were gone and the brilliant afternoon sunlight descended like a confirmation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surprise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I drove through a heavy rainstorm on Saturday to attend a niece’s temple endowment. I was flustered by my commute and ran from my car to the unfamiliar temple in the rain. I was greeted in the usual way by young and old temple workers, ushered through new halls, and given spiritual assurances that my … Continue reading After the storm<\/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":[8,11,46,36,39,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-extended-family","category-faith","category-jesus-christ","category-joy","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28222","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=28222"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28222\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}