{"id":29107,"date":"2025-01-05T10:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=29107"},"modified":"2025-01-05T12:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T18:32:33","slug":"moment-of-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/moment-of-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy memory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bad20db8-bed6-429f-a6cb-758d5ce94c8f-1_all_19579-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bad20db8-bed6-429f-a6cb-758d5ce94c8f-1_all_19579-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29108\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bad20db8-bed6-429f-a6cb-758d5ce94c8f-1_all_19579-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bad20db8-bed6-429f-a6cb-758d5ce94c8f-1_all_19579-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bad20db8-bed6-429f-a6cb-758d5ce94c8f-1_all_19579-768x1152.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bad20db8-bed6-429f-a6cb-758d5ce94c8f-1_all_19579-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bad20db8-bed6-429f-a6cb-758d5ce94c8f-1_all_19579-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard and I became engaged during the first week of January, 30 years ago. This little remembrance has been like glitter to my thoughts this week as I have swept away most of the sparkle of Christmas decorations. I believe that we make important decisions each day, including how to spend our time, and with whom we spend our time, but there are a few moments of decision that have immense impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Choosing to say yes to Richard&#8217;s proposal was the best decision. I wasn&#8217;t expecting a proposal that evening, but I remember almost immediately after saying yes, I told him that we would have a good life together&#8230;as if I could know&#8230;which I couldn&#8217;t, on my own. This was a little insight from the Lord, given to me at a critical moment of decision: things are going to be good with this man at your side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/engagement.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/engagement.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1942\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/engagement.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/engagement-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard and I became engaged during the first week of January, 30 years ago. This little remembrance has been like glitter to my thoughts this week as I have swept away most of the sparkle of Christmas decorations. I believe that we make important decisions each day, including how to spend our time, and with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/01\/moment-of-decision\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy memory<\/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":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage","category-promptings-of-the-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107","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=29107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29121,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107\/revisions\/29121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}