{"id":33218,"date":"2026-09-13T20:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=33218"},"modified":"2026-09-13T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:40:57","slug":"tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Tender"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000012731.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000012731-1024x495.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000012731-1024x495.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000012731-300x145.png 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000012731-768x372.png 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1000012731.png 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I read this passage in Isaiah today and I thought of a recent experience with my dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month we took our Paige, Michael, and their little boy to visit my parents. I learned that my dad had prepared for our visit by walking his large property, clearing paths for the little two-year old. He tried to find any obstacle that could cause a fall and removed little sticks and rocks. He went before his great-grandson and made the crooked places straight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow this makes me trust that God is removing obstacles on my path, too. He is preparing the way for good things to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this passage in Isaiah today and I thought of a recent experience with my dad. Last month we took our Paige, Michael, and their little boy to visit my parents. I learned that my dad had prepared for our visit by walking his large property, clearing paths for the little two-year old. He &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2026\/09\/tender\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tender<\/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":[13,36,20,49,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-time","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela","category-new-generation","category-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218","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=33218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33224,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33218\/revisions\/33224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}