{"id":1125,"date":"2023-11-25T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2023-11-25T22:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T22:05:21","slug":"thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThanksgiving\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is my command: Love each other.\u201d John 15:17<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Thanksgiving was the first time our family has had an opportunity to all be together since Covid. It was awesome!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than ever, I seemed to appreciate each person in attendance a little bit more. You could sense that everyone was excited about being together again and I found myself reflecting on the many years of holiday family get-togethers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are a kitchen family. We have different folks checking the turkey, mashing potatoes, making dressing, stirring gravy, etc. etc. Those who are not cooking are standing in the kitchen as well and everyone is talking, often at the same time. Wonderful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s never about the food. It\u2019s all about the relationships, building fond memories and loving each other. It\u2019s a day to be wrapped in God\u2019s love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Praying that each of you experienced God\u2019s love on Thanksgiving, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cThis is my command: Love each other.\u201d John 15:17 Applying God\u2019s Word This Thanksgiving was the first time our family has had an opportunity to all be together since Covid. It was awesome! More than ever, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}