{"id":1159,"date":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themrscaseyann.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/03\/ode-to-joy-5"},"modified":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T12:00:00","slug":"ode-to-joy-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"Joyful list"},"content":{"rendered":"
count your <\/span>joys<\/span> instead of your woes,\u00a0<\/span>
\ncount your friends instead of your foes.<\/span><\/div>\n
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via\u00a0<\/span>Abi Q Photography<\/a><\/div>\n

are you a pessimist sometimes?..yeah, me too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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i think it’s just part of my makeup to look at things that\u00a0need to be fixed so I can be on my way to fixing\u00a0them\u00a0or getting help so it gets taken care of. however some things aren’t fixed in a blink. and i can’t take my little wand everywhere and wiggle my nose so all the sad stuff goes away.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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in the process of hard stuff, i can easily get caught up and miss all the wonderful things happening all around me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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my friend recently read One Thousand Gifts<\/i><\/a>\u00a0by Ann Voskamp.\u00a0Voskamp\u00a0writes in view of the apostle Paul {“In everything give thanks” 1 Thess 5:18} and King Solomon {“He will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart” Ecc 5:20}.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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my friend is using facebook as a space to\u2014every day\u2014post pieces of her list of one thousand gifts that she’s grateful for. it’s been totally inspiring to me..<\/div>\n
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and as a practice to remember these things, i’m going to begin counting my joys {instead of my woes} in the form of little lists. i’m not wanting to claim ignorance to what’s hard, but knowing all of that, still have an outlook of joy.<\/div>\n
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in one year, whether on this blog, a piece of paper on my wall or just in my heart, i hope to have a list \u00a0of gifts i can recognize in my life. & that’s more gifts than i know about right now \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n
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here is my first ode to joy\u2014seven things that that bring me <\/span>joy<\/span>:<\/span><\/div>\n
1. a good god that i love<\/a> and loves me too<\/div>\n
2. a wonderful husband who’s my best friend<\/a><\/div>\n
3. and generous, loving, funny, kind and handsome<\/div>\n
4. my family (yes, all of you! ..the whole enchilada)<\/div>\n
5. jumping in a pool on a hot day<\/div>\n
6. freshly baked cookies (these ones<\/a>..)<\/div>\n
7. sitting in the late afternoon sun on the porch<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

count your joys instead of your woes,\u00a0 count your friends instead of your foes. -irish proverb via\u00a0Abi Q Photography are you a pessimist sometimes?..yeah, me too. i think it’s just part of my makeup to look at things that\u00a0need to be fixed so I can be on my way to fixing\u00a0them\u00a0or getting help so it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bits-and-pieces"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrscaseyann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}