{"id":376,"date":"2018-12-10T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/im-in-my-happy-place\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:15:56","slug":"im-in-my-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"I’m in My Happy Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just look at those smiles! Those are my grandchildren who all live here in Austin, their new “happy place”, after having been strung out from Georgia to Seattle. What an amazing turn of events. I can\u2019t begin to express the joy of their dad and mom, Ryan and Shawntel, having their boys (and our Ruthie, Braden\u2019s wife) close to them. When I arrived on Friday, everyone was here at the Wuerch\u2019s for dinner \u2013 laughing, sharing, contributing advice, offering genuine understanding to each other and such sincerely respecting each other. It is a “happy place”.<\/p>\n

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After going to church together (sweetest \u201chappy place\u201d) yesterday morning, we went out for lunch and then back home for \u201cmy\u201d famous chocolate cake. It was once called \u201cGranny\u2019s cake\u201d, but now it\u2019s been renamed \u201cNana\u2019s cake\u201d. I finally mastered the recipe. Lord, have mercy \u2013 it took me long enough. I could never get the icing to the hard fudge icing. But practice makes perfect \u2013 I did it! <\/p>\n

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My son is in his \u201chappy place\u201d. I witnessed it when I heard his big boys seeking his wise counsel. I witnessed it when the boys acted on that counsel. I love the relationship of Shawntel and Ruthie \u2013 finally, another girl to add to the mix of all that testosterone!! Such a happy place!<\/p>\n

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I share these personal highlights today to emphasize \u201chappy place\u201d. Do these family members agree on everything? NOT! Do they have the same likes and dislikes when it comes to food or movies or games or sports events? NOT! But they all agree they are in a \u201chappy place\u201d when it comes to celebrating each other and their achievements. They agree that they are here for each other \u2013 no matter what! <\/p>\n

We all want to be happy and have places of happiness, but sometimes trying to find happiness can be a challenge. Often times we search for it in all the wrong places or ways, when the answer is much simpler. The places, the people, the sweet times can represent being in a happy place, but far more important is wherever we are and whoever we are with, shouldn\u2019t determine our \u201chappy place\u201d. Psalm 144:15 says “Happy are the people whose God is the Lord.” And, Psalm 119:1,2 says \u201cHappy are those who live pure lives, who follow the LORD\u2019s teachings. Happy are those who keep his rules, who try to obey Him with their whole heart.\u201d Our \u201chappy place\u201d is wherever we are when our WHOEVER is God and we listen and heed His wise counsel.
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Just look at those smiles! Those are my grandchildren who all live here in Austin, their new “happy place”, after having been strung out from Georgia to Seattle. What an amazing turn of events. I can\u2019t begin to express the joy of their dad and mom, Ryan and Shawntel, having their boys (and our Ruthie,…<\/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":[650,651,652,653,654,655,656,657,658,659,660],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-austin","tag-fudge-icing","tag-grandchildren","tag-happiness","tag-happy-are-the-people","tag-happy-are-those","tag-happy-place","tag-nanas-cake","tag-psalm-1191-2","tag-psalm-14415","tag-smiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}