{"id":724,"date":"2013-09-05T22:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T02:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriaslater.com\/blog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2013-09-07T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T14:20:02","slug":"grateful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gloriaslater.com\/blog\/grateful\/","title":{"rendered":"Grateful"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like href='http:\/\/www.gloriaslater.com\/blog\/grateful\/' send='true' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like><h1><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gloriaslater.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/P9040029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-732\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gloriaslater.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/P9040029-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Grateful<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>It&#8217;s the end of the day. Things are winding down. I just watched a beautiful movie &#8220;Deeply&#8221; and am feeling warm. Grateful. I just said &#8220;Hello, Mom!&#8221; to my mother who passed into Heaven on 9\/30\/2004. I know she&#8217;s here with me when the time is 9:30. And so she is.<\/p>\n<p>I looked over at my journal and picked it up to write the last two days and saw the entry for Tuesday. That&#8217;s when I decided to share it with you. It was the same time of night. I was all ready to hop into bed and sat down in my blue chair to say my verses and pray. That&#8217;s when it happened. Always unexpected. Never a clue it&#8217;s going to happen. Here it is just as I wrote it that night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, I turned off the great episode of &#8220;Suits&#8221; and the next was to recite verses and pray. I looked up and felt God&#8217;s loving gaze and put my head into my hands &#8212; so grateful I have Jesus! And God mused over it and said He took a snapshot of me with my head in my hands like that because it was His favorite. And I mused and chuckled. Then He said He framed it and put it on the wall &#8212; of His heart. And I was overwhelmed, choked up and cried a bit. When I could speak, I said weakly &#8220;Thank You.&#8221; In a moment my stomach gurgled (one of God&#8217;s more humorous ways of speaking to me) &#8212; as it did while I wrote this. \ud83d\ude42 And we were humbled and had a full heart. Nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So I hope this makes you feel something near the gratefulness that I felt then and that billows up in my heart right now.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good night, evening, day or morning, whichever it is you&#8217;ll be facing after you read this. God is Good!<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my roses. Smell the roses. 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