{"id":8789,"date":"2014-03-09T12:11:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T19:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=8789"},"modified":"2014-03-09T19:10:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:10:50","slug":"grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-wp-1394417433732.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"wp-1394417433732\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/wpid-wp-1394417433732.jpeg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Everyone is home on this Sunday afternoon enjoying individual pursuits. There is sweet piano music echoing through the house. Thoughts from church this morning rise to the surface as I take some time to rest. I am grateful for the Savior, and that His grace carries us through difficulties. I am glad to know that the gift of grace is just that: a gift, not earned by me, but it&#8217;s up to me to accept that gift.<\/p>\n<p>When I obey the commandments I show that I accept the gift.<\/p>\n<p>When I repent I show that the gift is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>When I help others I show that the gift has changed me.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing I do will repay the gift of the Savior, but through his grace and my obedience (acceptance of His laws) I know that I can be perfected in Him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone is home on this Sunday afternoon enjoying individual pursuits. There is sweet piano music echoing through the house. Thoughts from church this morning rise to the surface as I take some time to rest. I am grateful for the Savior, and that His grace carries us through difficulties. I am glad to know that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/grace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grace<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789","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=8789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8789\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}