{"id":5589,"date":"2012-04-23T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:17:07","slug":"ill-choose-these-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/ill-choose-these-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll choose these memories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Black light volleyball photo by Jen C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last week I had sad news from extended family and weird challenges sprang up around me. I felt heavy and sorrowful. On the other hand, I had good news, too, and there were opportunities for me to serve and feel needed and this made me happy.<\/p>\n

Someday when I look back at this time in my life it will be a smudged, incoherent image because of all of the activity, but I will work to see that the good memories will rise up and be more prominent than the bad.<\/p>\n

I will remember how Mark’s little drawings cheer me. I will remember the love I feel for the people around me, of the fun times with the Young Women playing black light volleyball and hearing them sing.<\/p>\n

I’ll remember how I much I enjoy Richard’s dinners from the grill and chats with him during a baseball game. I’ll think of the way Timothy twirls his hair when he reads to me and how Daniel looks when he’s acting grown up and unselfish. I will remember the way the little ballerinas watch Paige sweep into the dance studio and how she smiles when Richard teases her.<\/p>\n

I’ll remember the good people who serve my family in the community, sports, and church.<\/p>\n

I will be grateful for a husband who lets me sleep in and remembers to kiss me goodbye every morning.<\/p>\n

The difficult things will just serve as a counterpoint, essential in emphasizing the good and forming character, but they won’t take a prominent place on the mantel.<\/p>\n

Now I’m going to get back to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week I had sad news from extended family and weird challenges sprang up around me. I felt heavy and sorrowful. On the other hand, I had good news, too, and there were opportunities for me to serve and feel needed and this made me happy. Someday when I look back at this time in … Continue reading I’ll choose these memories<\/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":[8,13,20,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-family-time","category-life-according-to-angela","category-marriage","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","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=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5596,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions\/5596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}