{"id":12485,"date":"2020-05-25T05:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=12485"},"modified":"2020-05-25T05:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T10:01:54","slug":"power-bait-power-fishing-power-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=12485","title":{"rendered":"Power Bait \u2013 Power Fishing \u2013 Power Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the end of last year\u2019s fishing trip in Oklahoma, we\u2019ve looked forward to this day, this year. We\u2019ll re-enact it all over again. It\u2019s our Payton\u2019s 20th birthday today and as has been requested by him for many years \u2013 we\u2019re celebrating in grand \u201chook-line-sinker and power-bait\u201d way \u2013 his favorite way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m all in. Geared up, fishing clothes, enough food to feed this hungry crew and beyond, water shoes, hats, sun screen, bug repellant \u2013 all the necessities are checked off the list. It\u2019s the list that was made originally by Papa and I years ago. Now it\u2019s updated and all items are present and accounted for plus all the items for the guys’ cabin. Changes came this year. Larry, Staci, Alexia and I will be staying in their super-sized RV. Payton and his two friends\u2019 bachelor pad will be in a cabin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s Payton’s birthday and it may sound like this is all for him — oh, but not so. I remember last year, after fishing almost all day, we stopped to go in for dinner. It was getting darker and Larry asked Staci: \u201cWanna\u2019 go fishing?\u201d Her reply was \u201cMorning, noon and night!\u201d LOL! This girl is the real fishing deal. She vowed to fish in 50 different fishing holes across the U.S. this year \u2013 now that they have this RV. So, Payton gets his love for fishing honestly — not to mention, he was Papa\u2019s fishing buddy as long as Papa was on this side of heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fishing is a natural AND spiritual experience for us. We’ll fish and pray, fish and praise, fish and meditate. It\u2019s so natural to flow like that, especially when we\u2019re smack dab in the middle of God\u2019s creation wonderland. Fishing brings to mind how often we hear Bible stories of someone fishing or being eaten by a fish. Yikes! Jonah, what were you thinking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the fishermen brothers, Peter and Andrew, who Jesus first called to be His disciples. It was fish that Jesus multiplied to feed the 5,000+. It was fish that Jesus cooked up for His disciples. It was in a fish\u2019s mouth that Jesus sent the disciples to get the coin to pay their taxes. It was fish that Jesus likened to, when He said to His disciples \u201cBe fishers of men\u201d! There\u2019s something about fishing. Jesus set the example, and we\u2019re simply doing what He did. There\u2019s a little competition, but mostly relaxation and a potential fish meal (or meals) in store, as the fruits of the rewards of fishing are bountiful. Aw! I can taste that beer-battered fried fish now! Great expectations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the campfire, we’ll laugh and talk about our adventures in each day. We\u2019ll rattle on about the \u201cbig one\u201d that might have gotten away or the fishing techniques that an old fisherman might have shared with us. We\u2019ll make lots more memories that we\u2019ll continue to share for years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This place may not fit into your idea of a dream vacation, but it is ours. I\u2019m still remembering the many fishing trips when our kids were kids. All those memories continue to mount up \u2013 even to the point we know Payton and Alexia will want to bring their kids back here some day! Might I suggest that you ponder about the memories you’d like your kiddos to want a \u201crepeat\u201d with their kids. I promise. It’s worth it! Now, until you hear from me again, we\u2019ve GONE FISHING!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the end of last year\u2019s fishing trip in Oklahoma, we\u2019ve looked forward to this day, this year. We\u2019ll re-enact it all over again. It\u2019s our Payton\u2019s 20th birthday today and as has been requested by him for many years \u2013 we\u2019re celebrating in grand \u201chook-line-sinker and power-bait\u201d way \u2013 his favorite way! I\u2019m all…<\/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":[17440,17441,17438,17439],"tags":[17436,1210,17434,2740,1769,3306,1626,5744,2748,8517,40,17437,12075,1645,13319,17432,17433,859,2357,8099,17435],"class_list":["post-12485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broken-bow-oklahoma","category-gone-fishing","category-power-bait","category-power-fishing","tag-big-one","tag-blog","tag-broken-bow","tag-cabin","tag-christian","tag-disciples","tag-fishermen","tag-fishing","tag-gone-fishing","tag-hook","tag-inspiration","tag-line","tag-meditate","tag-oklahoma","tag-power-bait","tag-power-fishing","tag-power-living","tag-praise","tag-pray","tag-rv","tag-sinker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485","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=12485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12485\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}