{"id":16724,"date":"2022-09-18T04:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T09:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=16724"},"modified":"2022-09-18T04:44:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T09:44:54","slug":"we-arent-looking-for-a-party-we-are-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=16724","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0We Aren\u2019t Looking For a Party — We Are a Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And, just looking for a place to land\u2026.on LAND and on OCEAN!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, September 16th , our Alexia turned 21! It\u2019s been hard for me to grasp this one. How did our darling little Lexi aka Alexia (now that she\u2019s outgrown Lexi) get to 21 so fast? Her mom and dad, (Staci and Larry), her brother and girlfriend (Payton and Aleah), and ME \u2013 celebrated her big day deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico!<\/p>\n\n\n

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What a glorious day and God made sure that we knew He made it for us. It rained on us on the way to the ferry that carried us to Port Aransas. But, the rain was worth the gift God gave us. For nearly an hour, God blessed us with a rainbow that let us know He was right there with us.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then He super blessed us with catching big kingfish and, of course, our Alexia, the birthday girl er’ woman caught the first one. What a workout she had reeling it in. A full day of fishing, breathing in the salt air and enjoying God’s bountiful creation. Coming back into port, the dolphins didn’t disappoint. They greeted us, but they had a plan in mind — they knew we would feed them and we did.<\/p>\n\n\n

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And, the topper was having a captain and deck hand (his godson’s son), both Christians, who were proud to share their love for God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, birthday night, Larry and Staci\u2019s ministry and business staff joined us for more sweet birthday celebrations, which, of course, included Mexican food.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Daily, I look for \u201cGod\u201d messages in the “ordinary” of living for my blogs. Yesterday I found Him in embracing the awesomeness of God showing up in awesome ways, enjoying so much laughter, family traditions, and the joy and memories we share together in silly little ways. Alexia is our on-site comedian as you can see her kissing yet another fish \u2013 her claim to fame — so laughter is a huge benefit of partying with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are her \u201clifers\u201d because Alexia knows we are the ones who pray for her daily, and who believe God\u2019s best for her.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Yesterday, I realized that \u201cbesties\u201d are those who bring the party with them wherever they go. They laugh at your jokes that just maybe aren\u2019t that funny; they listen to that story that you\u2019ve told several times before; they tell you, you look good despite the crumbs on your face or stains on your shirt.<\/p>\n\n\n

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They are your lifers. I tend to think that we are a lot like Jesus. In Jesus, life is a party. In fact, He joins us at celebrations. He had many occasions where He showed up to party. He performed His first miracle by turning water into wine. He healed and raised people from the dead. At the parties he was at, He provided the food (loaves and fishes) AND the entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n

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He gave them keys to success. Just think of it, as His brothers and sisters, we will continue to party together with Him for all of eternity. But, in the meantime because He lives in us, the party continues. This day Jesus is asking us all to trust Him and do as He says: \u201cLove, give, be kind, share, be joyful, encourage, and be full of excitement for each day that He holds.<\/p>\n\n\n

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He has a party in store for those of us who look for it. We can always live in the joy of Christ. May we always have the courage to celebrate and party in the good times and the tough times, and may we be the \u201cparty animals\u201d that carry His love and give out His love wherever we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And, just looking for a place to land\u2026.on LAND and on OCEAN! On Thursday, September 16th , our Alexia turned 21! It\u2019s been hard for me to grasp this one. How did our darling little Lexi aka Alexia (now that she\u2019s outgrown Lexi) get to 21 so fast? Her mom and dad, (Staci and Larry),…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16725,"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":[],"class_list":["post-16724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724","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=16724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16738,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16724\/revisions\/16738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}