{"id":9661,"date":"2014-08-04T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2014-08-04T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T20:42:35","slug":"by-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/by-name\/","title":{"rendered":"By name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the dog tags I made for each member of the Sanchez family. It was a lot of work, but as I hammered out the names, I thought of their personalities, challenges, and accomplishments. My appreciation for them grew as the names gathered in front of me on the step.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1407168920165.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1407168920165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/wpid-wp-1407168920165.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We read in the Book of Mormon that &#8220;all things are written by the Father&#8221; (3 Nephi 27:26) referring to the records that are kept by which the world will be judged. Perhaps one &#8220;parenting tip&#8221; or &#8220;family relationship tip&#8221; we can gain from this is that keeping records of the people in our lives can help us be better judges of their motives and needs.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I will write a paragraph about each child in my journal so I can remember their lives. When I do this, sometimes I feel inspiration about what they need. Patterns in their behavior become clear messages of what they are going through.<\/p>\n<p>Angie&#8217;s advice for the day: write down the names of each family member. Pause and think of their strengths, challenges, and contribution to your life. Perhaps say a prayer of gratitude for each of them by name. Take action on the things you feel inspired to do for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the dog tags I made for each member of the Sanchez family. It was a lot of work, but as I hammered out the names, I thought of their personalities, challenges, and accomplishments. My appreciation for them grew as the names gathered in front of me on the step. We read in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2014\/08\/by-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">By name<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-family-time","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","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=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9666,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}