{"id":6409,"date":"2020-11-25T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6409"},"modified":"2020-11-25T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:58:45","slug":"what-im-thankful-for-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/11\/25\/what-im-thankful-for-in-2020","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019m Thankful For In 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had some of my stu\u00addents sub\u00admit video self\u00adies of grat\u00adi\u00adtude. I hope these three min\u00adutes put a smile on your face and stoke your hol\u00adi\u00adday spir\u00adit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pcupxyzRAfY?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Stan\u00adford stu\u00addents express thanks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading I think about this poem from the ever-quotable Chester\u00adton:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>You say grace before meals.<br>All right. <br>But I say grace before the con\u00adcert and the opera,<br>and grace before the play and pan\u00adtomime,<br>and grace before I open a book,<br>and grace before sketch\u00ading, paint\u00ading,<br>swim\u00adming, fenc\u00ading, box\u00ading, walk\u00ading, play\u00ading, danc\u00ading,<br>and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.<\/p><cite>G.K. Chester\u00adton, \u201cA Grace\u201d, <em>Col\u00adlect\u00aded Poet\u00adry<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even in 2020 there is so much to be thank\u00adful for. I am grate\u00adful that my fam\u00adi\u00adly has stayed healthy. I am grate\u00adful that we live in an age when sci\u00aden\u00adtists can pro\u00adduce three vac\u00adcines for a new pan\u00addem\u00adic in less than a year. I am grate\u00adful that even in the midst of a pan\u00addem\u00adic I have a place to live and food to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am grate\u00adful that I love my job \u2014 I get to min\u00adis\u00adter at one of the most amaz\u00ading places on earth. I am grate\u00adful for the team of peo\u00adple pray\u00ading for and pro\u00advid\u00ading for this min\u00adistry. I am grate\u00adful that even in the midst of a pan\u00addem\u00adic we were able to meet and min\u00adis\u00adter to new peo\u00adple \u2014 I had\u00adn\u2019t met six out of the twen\u00adty stu\u00addents in the above video before fall quar\u00adter began. How won\u00adder\u00adful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am grate\u00adful that God loves, that God for\u00adgives, and that God will bring jus\u00adtice. I am grate\u00adful that He cre\u00adat\u00aded a won\u00adder\u00adful world and filled it with good things. I am grate\u00adful for the cross and for the emp\u00adty tomb, and I am grate\u00adful that in just two days my fam\u00adi\u00adly will begin dec\u00ado\u00adrat\u00ading for Christ\u00admas to cel\u00ade\u00adbrate the gift of Jesus \u2014 God with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May the rest of your 2020 be filled with occa\u00adsions for grat\u00adi\u00adtude, and may your 2021 be out\u00adstand\u00ading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some of my stu\u00addents sub\u00admit video self\u00adies of grat\u00adi\u00adtude. I hope these three min\u00adutes put a smile on your face and stoke your hol\u00adi\u00adday spir\u00adit. Every Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading I think about this poem from the ever-quotable Chester\u00adton: You say grace before meals.All right. But I say grace before the con\u00adcert and the opera,and grace \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2020\/11\/25\/what-im-thankful-for-in-2020\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cWhat I\u2019m Thank\u00adful For In 2020\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What I'm Thankful For In 2020","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news","category-student-testimonies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1Fn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6420,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions\/6420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}