{"id":30683,"date":"2025-07-16T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=30683"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:16:48","slug":"marks-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/marks-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c6ldste Ross&#8217;s Monkeys in Aalborg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"229\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2022\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The original monkeys that inspired it all, purchased from a vending machine in 2008.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mark sent me a voice message he received this week from Emily in Denmark. In the message, she tells Mark that she keeps one of his tiny monkeys in her kitchen as a reminder of his kindness. Six months ago, Mark hid monkeys for her children throughout their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve written before that Mark likes to hide monkeys and yes, they are pretty silly. But this small and completely authentic habit endeared Mark to Emily&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord translates into love whatever earnest offerings His young authorized servants have to give. To be clear, Mark did more than hide monkeys, and Emily and her family were super kind to the missionaries. This voice message reminded me that the Lord is really good at multiplying love and helping people feel seen. He can use any small thing, even tiny plastic monkeys, to accomplish his purpose to lift us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark sent me a voice message he received this week from Emily in Denmark. In the message, she tells Mark that she keeps one of his tiny monkeys in her kitchen as a reminder of his kindness. Six months ago, Mark hid monkeys for her children throughout their home. I&#8217;ve written before that Mark likes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/marks-monkeys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u00c6ldste Ross&#8217;s Monkeys in Aalborg<\/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":[13,17,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-fun-finds","category-missionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683","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=30683"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31830,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30683\/revisions\/31830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}