{"id":13037,"date":"2020-08-27T05:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13037"},"modified":"2020-08-27T05:06:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:06:51","slug":"when-all-is-said-and-done-its-still-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=13037","title":{"rendered":"When All is Said and Done \u2013 It’s Still a Miracle!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Sunday, my son called to check in on me. \u201cWhat are you doing today, Mom?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m going to church with Larry and Staci and then we\u2019re going for my birthday lunch at Hutchins BBQ (my pick)! They\u2019ll be out of town this week on my birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then his audacious reply: \u201cMom, how is it going to feel to be 79?\u201d \u201cHa! Ha! You know it\u2019s 72 and here\u2019s what I know. My President is two years older than me at 74. If he can run a country \u2013 I think I can run my little corner of the world. I\u2019m amazed that President Trump could be in his retirement years and live in a peaceful place of \u2018having arrived\u2019 and be able to sit back and enjoy the fruit of his labors \u2013 but, NO! He preferred to give his all for our country to get on track again. He chose to not receive his salary \u2013 to just give it away. He chose to make tough decisions even though he has to put up with so much hate and lies about him. He chose to be a patriot \u2013 so in love with our Country, that he\u2019s willing to lay down his life for us!\u201d Tangent ended with my son barely getting a word in edgewise. Pardon me if I let you in on a personal vent. It\u2019s the day after my birthday and I\u2019m still in the celebration mode! And, as my young-whipper-snapper-self, I\u2019m not ready to quit either. Not saying I want the responsibilities of a store clerk \u2013 never mind being president. But he sure inspires me to keep swinging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for all the birthday love yesterday from my beloved social media friends and family. My, oh my! If you want to feel the love, be sure to be a friend on FB! My children were all out-of-town for my big day, but they showered me with love from afar and so did my FB friends! Isn’t it a miracle that in a matter of seconds, we are transmitting birthday messages to each other — unlike the old days of snail mail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m grateful for my sweet cousin who took me for a yummy \u201ccrab legs\u201d lunch and then to the \u201cPainted Tree\u201d, a new marketplace to Frisco, full of mini-shops of local shop owners, boutiques, decorators, artisans and craftsmen all under one roof. So much fun. Remember my tale yesterday about the \u201cMiracles\u201d book I received, with musings about my life being one of miracles? What captured my attention in Painted Tree was this metal sign that says \u201cthere will be miracles\u201d! Of course it was my own birthday gift to me \u2013 as a reminder that there are miracles coming our way every day \u2013 we just need to expect them and recognize them when they come!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how I\u2019ll recognize miracles! I will breathe in God\u2019s goodness \u2013 that\u2019s a miracle. I can breathe. I will see the sun rise and the sun set. That\u2019s a miracle \u2013 I can see God\u2019s creation. Yes, there will be miracles and most of all, the greatest miracle of all is when someone has lost their way, and by God\u2019s amazing grace, their soul is set free. Miraculous the change in one who is redeemed through Calvary. There will be miracles when we see a lily push its way through the stubborn sod. But, most of all there will be miracles because we believe in God. There can be miracles when you believe. And, just in case you don’t believe in miracles, perhaps you’ve forgotten — you are one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, my son called to check in on me. \u201cWhat are you doing today, Mom?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m going to church with Larry and Staci and then we\u2019re going for my birthday lunch at Hutchins BBQ (my pick)! They\u2019ll be out of town this week on my birthday.\u201d Then his audacious reply: \u201cMom, how is it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13038,"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":[13473,18399,13989,16249],"tags":[156,1799,18395,1392,18398,674,18394,18397,896,18396,148,520,18393,587,6508,14176],"class_list":["post-13037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-happy-birthday","category-hutchins-bbq","category-miracle","category-president-trump","tag-birthday","tag-birthday-gift","tag-crab-legs","tag-facebook","tag-gods-amazing-grace-2","tag-happy-birthday","tag-hutchins-bbq","tag-marketplace","tag-miracle","tag-painted-tree","tag-president-trump","tag-social-media","tag-soul-set-free","tag-sunrise","tag-sunset","tag-vent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037","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=13037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13041,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13037\/revisions\/13041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}