{"id":1101,"date":"2016-12-16T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/when-you-choose-hope-anything-is\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:08:28","slug":"when-you-choose-hope-anything-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"When You Choose HOPE, Anything is Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HOPE, means \u201cthe exciting expectation that something GOOD is about to happen\u201d. Yesterday, I knew what that’s about — based on my grandchildren’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS about what last night held for them. When the tickets could first be bought, my grandson, Payton Wallace purchased tickets for his whole family (me and his friend included) to the premier showing of the new Star Wars Rogue One movie. Needless to say, he is quite the avid Star Wars fan. Check out his bedroom decor’ here! He has looked forward to the new movie since he first heard it was coming out. When my Austin grandson, Brennan, heard about Payton going to the 10:30 pm showing last night in Frisco, he one-upped Payton and bought tickets for him and his friend to see it at the 7:30 pm showing in Austin. I love the “cousin” rivalry! Needless to say, their hope and great expectations became reality when we all saw it last night.<\/p>\n

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This post isn’t so much about Star Wars as it is for us to be putting our hope and great expectations for our lives out there. Those of us who have experienced \u201cexpecting\u201d a baby \u2013 know quite well, that it’s a process. We don\u2019t get half way through our pregnancy and say \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m through with this \u2013 I\u2019m done with \u2018expecting\u2019!\u201d No, we know it\u2019s a process, and if we patiently wait for \u201cthe appointed time\u201d of delivery, we\u2019ll be blessed with a precious bundle of love and joy. Payton and Brennan, and the rest of us for that matter, did our best to patiently wait for this new episode of Star Wars and it was worth the wait. <\/p>\n

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This post really isn’t about STAR Wars, but THE STAR of the show in this beautiful season of Advent — expecting and waiting for Him. The birth of Christ gives us the hope, and possibility, that we can live life in a radical way \u2013 the way of trusting, believing, and expecting that all He\u2019s promised us will be ours if we patiently wait for His perfect plan for our lives. During this beautiful season, may we find that place of peace — a time of loving and deepening our relationship with God \u2013 delighting in Him. It\u2019s a radical way of living, but the infant in the manger is a beautiful \u201cmemory\u201d \u2013 our King of Kings is not there. He grew up, and He sacrificed His life so that we can live a life of hope and GREAT EXPECTATION. <\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t give up! Keep your hope up! Get your EXPECTOR expecting! Remember \u2026.. it\u2019s a process! Your \u201cbaby\u201d (your hopes, your dreams) will get here\u2026.and you\u2019ll soon be blessed with God\u2019s bundles of love and joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HOPE, means \u201cthe exciting expectation that something GOOD is about to happen\u201d. Yesterday, I knew what that’s about — based on my grandchildren’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS about what last night held for them. When the tickets could first be bought, my grandson, Payton Wallace purchased tickets for his whole family (me and his friend included) to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[579,6875,733,6876,6877,6878,293,39,6879,6880,878,2775,545],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-anything-is-possible","tag-birth-of-christ","tag-christmas-hope","tag-dreams","tag-expector","tag-great-expectation","tag-hope","tag-hopes","tag-once-you-choose-hope","tag-something-good-is-about-to-happen","tag-star-wars","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}