{"id":1032,"date":"2008-09-07T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2008-09-07T07:36:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T14:36:03","slug":"do-you-add-to-the-gloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/do-you-add-to-the-gloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Add to the Gloom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Barbara Johnson’s I Don’t Suffer From Insanity…I enjoy every minute of it<\/i> calendar, something far less than insane:<\/p>\n\n\n
What kind of perspective do you bring to unpleasant situations?<\/p>\n

Do you add to the gloom or introduce joy?<\/p>\n

Do you join in the grumbling or find something to laugh about?<\/p>\n

Do you follow our Lord’s example and lift the spirits of “those bent beneath their loads”?<\/p>\n

The Lord lifts the fallen and those bent beneath their loads.<\/i>
\nPsalm 145:14 TLB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

And two other verses I thought of on the subject of adding light rather than gloom:<\/p>\n\n\n
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven”<\/b> (Matthew 5:16).<\/p>\n

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light”<\/b> (Ephesians 5:8).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I am both challenged and convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Barbara Johnson’s I Don’t Suffer From Insanity…I enjoy every minute of it calendar, something far less than insane: What kind of perspective do you bring to unpleasant situations? Do you add to the gloom or introduce joy? Do you join in the grumbling or find something to laugh about? Do you follow our Lord’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-todays-thought"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-gE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}