{"id":2430,"date":"2012-05-22T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2012-05-22T14:35:24","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:35:24","slug":"sunshine-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/sunshine-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine Dad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m indebted to Emily Smucker for today’s unexpected food for thought.<\/p>\n

A photo-posting error on her part triggered this reminder for me:<\/p>\n

At times I must be a source of sunshine for my children.<\/span><\/p>\n

If I purposed to be that more often, what effect would it have on their dark times?<\/p>\n

And what would it do for my own dreary times? <\/p>\n

Well, here; read the red-booted girl’s own words:<\/p>\n

Depression is a funny thing. Except it’s not funny at all, so perhaps interesting would be a better term to use. People who have never gone through will put it on a list of sins which hamper our spiritual life, up there with greed and pride, while the ones who have gone through it often don\u2019t volunteer the information very readily.<\/p>\n

Depression is, of course, an illness.<\/p>\n

As embarrassed as I initially was about my abnormally depressed moods, I eventually came to the place where, in order to survive, I had to call up people I didn’t know, or barely knew, and say, “i need help.”<\/p>\n

Eventually I also learned that if you tell someone that you are on depression medication, there is a surprisingly high chance that they will say, “me too.”<\/p>\n

A side effect of prosaic, it turns out, is sleepiness. I am trying to end my dependence on depression meds and become less sleepy at the same time.<\/p>\n

I’m ready for some sunshine in my life.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Oops. I tried to put in a picture of sunshine and got my dad instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s what it looks like on her blog, after I did some trimming to the photo:<\/p>\n

\"Cropped<\/p>\n

If you’re a father, remember one of your family members might be thinking, “I’m ready for some sunshine in my life.” Then turn on the sunshine!<\/b><\/p>\n

And if you’re not a father, turn on the sunshine<\/b> for someone else!<\/p>\n

Ah, me. I don’t do very good at that. I get so engrossed in my own ___________! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

“Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad”<\/span> (Proverbs 12:25).<\/p>\n

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones”<\/span> (Proverbs 17:22).<\/p>\n

“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God”<\/span> (2 Corinthians 1:4).<\/p>\n

To read Emily’s full article and see the three photos with it, hike on over to It will rain<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m indebted to Emily Smucker for today’s unexpected food for thought. A photo-posting error on her part triggered this reminder for me: At times I must be a source of sunshine for my children. If I purposed to be that more often, what effect would it have on their dark times? And what would it … 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":[389,14,12,999],"tags":[515,150,880,682,547],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-health","category-lessons-for-living","category-soul-and-spirit","tag-encouragement","tag-life-in-the-shoe","tag-life-lessons","tag-mental-health","tag-parenting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Dc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","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=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}