{"id":2023,"date":"2014-06-13T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/and-i-think-to-myselfwhat-wonderfu-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:00:28","slug":"and-i-think-to-myselfwhat-wonderfu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=2023","title":{"rendered":"And, I Think to Myself……What a Wonderful World!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m loving being in WA and back to my routine of taking my two youngest grandsons to school and picking them up in the afternoon! Yesterday morning, as we headed out of the driveway, we heard on the radio, Louis Armstrong singing \u201cAnd I think to myself, \u201cWhat a Wonderful World\u201d. Suddenly, I had a sweet memory. As Louis\u2019 song continued, it was the background as I told them this story:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was our first morning home from the hospital, and the doctors had just told us they had done all they could do to help Papa get well. Papa was lying in his bed. Do you remember how he could see the lake from the bed?” Both of the boys remembered. I went on, \u201cI can\u2019t even imagine all that must have been going on in Papa\u2019s head as he looked out our bedroom windows that were open wide that morning. Wasn\u2019t it so cool how Papa and Nana\u2019s window faced the little lake (the accompanying picture is that view)? I\u2019ll bet Papa was thinking about you guys and what fun he had fishing with you down there! It was such a beautiful morning. The water was smooth as glass, the fish were jumping, and the birds were chirping really loud. Then the doorbell rang. It was our new Social Worker, Melvin \u2013 a really sweet African American man, who was so happy and joyful. A social worker is someone who cheers you up if you might be sad. I think God picked him just for us. After he asked us lots of questions, I asked what he liked to do. He said he loves singing in his church\u2019s choir, so I asked if he\u2019d sing a song for us. He immediately began singing. He had a great voice, and he was singing this song that we\u2019re listening to, right now. Just think about what Papa was thinking when he heard these words:<\/p>\n

I see trees of green, red roses, too. I see them bloom for me and you.
\nAnd I think to myself, \u201cwhat a wonderful world\u201d.
\nI see skies of blue and clouds of white, the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself, \u201cwhat a wonderful world\u201d.
\nThe colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky. Are also on the faces of people going by, I see friends shaking hands, saying “How do you do?” They’re really saying “I love you”.
\nI hear babies cry, I watch them grow. They’ll learn much more than I’ll ever know. And I think to myself, \u201cwhat a wonderful world\u201d. Yes I think to myself, \u201cwhat a wonderful world\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Brennan said, \u201cWhat did Papa do?\u201d I said, \u201cHe smiled real big!\u201d Brennan said, \u201cThat\u2019s what I thought!\u201d And I replied, “And he’s still smiling real big, and he’s probably singing “And I think to myself, what a wonderful HEAVEN!” We all laughed because we just KNEW that’s what Papa is doing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m loving being in WA and back to my routine of taking my two youngest grandsons to school and picking them up in the afternoon! Yesterday morning, as we headed out of the driveway, we heard on the radio, Louis Armstrong singing \u201cAnd I think to myself, \u201cWhat a Wonderful World\u201d. Suddenly, I had a…<\/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":[7147,11902,11903,3614,7149,1604,11547,5910,7151,5911,11904],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-and-i-think-to-myself","tag-choir","tag-clouds-of-white","tag-i-love-you","tag-louis-armstrong","tag-memory","tag-rainbow","tag-skies-of-blue","tag-social-worker","tag-what-a-wonderful-world","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023","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=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}