{"id":1268,"date":"2025-07-08T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2025-07-08T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T18:09:47","slug":"a-long-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1268","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Long Life\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\"><strong><sup>\u201c<\/sup><\/strong>Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways,\u00a0and all her paths are peace.\u201d Proverbs 3:16-17<\/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\">Proverbs 3 really talks about the gift of wisdom and more often than not it\u2019s found in true followers of Jesus. One such person, is Louise\u2019s mother, Josephine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Josephine turns 100 on July 9, 2025. She was married to her husband, Angelo, for 77 years before his death in 2021 at age 99. Josephine\u2019s son, five daughters, their families, grandchildren and great-grandchildren will all be in Chicago to help celebrate what an amazing women she is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve had the extreme pleasure of getting to know her via FaceTime over the last eleven years. Proverbs 3:16-17 describes Josephine perfectly. Her long life of hard work and service to God, family and friends has blessed her with riches and honor that only God can provide. Her pleasant ways, paths of peace and incredible wisdom are evident whenever and wherever she is present.<\/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\">Happy Birthday, Josephine. Well done good and faithful servant! We love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cLong life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways,\u00a0and all her paths are peace.\u201d Proverbs 3:16-17 Applying God\u2019s Word Proverbs 3 really talks about the gift &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1268\">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-1268","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\/1268","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=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}