{"id":510,"date":"2008-01-30T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=510"},"modified":"2008-01-30T05:43:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T14:43:40","slug":"alone-desolate-hopeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/alone-desolate-hopeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone. Desolate. Hopeless."},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=130 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Psalm 113<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sometimes I feel that way. Too often, in fact. Resigned to my self-inflicted lot. No longer dreaming big. Walking (is that what it&#8217;s called?) on the edge of discouragement and depression &#8212; enjoying life&#8217;s bright spots before the stirring breeze puffs me over yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe sort of like a woman with a mother-heart who, despite being in her physical prime, cannot bear children.<\/p>\n<p>Well, then&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the Lord&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (9).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wow!!<\/p>\n<p>When God wants better for me, let me not be resigned to my lot.<\/p>\n<p>When God has great plans for me, let me not give up hope.<\/p>\n<p>When God walks beside me, let me not feel alone.<\/p>\n<p>When God continues to bless me in abundant generosity, let me not think I&#8217;m desolate.<\/p>\n<p>And He does all of the above&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/thelordsname-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/thelordsname-s.jpg\" alt=\"[The Lord's name is to be praised (Psalm 113:3)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Psalm 113:3<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Psalm 113:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8355\"><font color=green>Set by God<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Psalm 113 Sometimes I feel that way. Too often, in fact. Resigned to my self-inflicted lot. No longer dreaming big. Walking (is that what it&#8217;s called?) on the edge of discouragement and depression &#8212; enjoying life&#8217;s bright spots before the stirring breeze puffs me over yet again. Maybe sort of like a woman with [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-8e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}