{"id":12990,"date":"2025-08-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12990"},"modified":"2025-07-30T05:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:46:21","slug":"perfect-gift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/perfect-gift-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/White-Pink-Wrapped-Gift-Giveaway-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/White-Pink-Wrapped-Gift-Giveaway-Instagram-Post-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/White-Pink-Wrapped-Gift-Giveaway-Instagram-Post-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/White-Pink-Wrapped-Gift-Giveaway-Instagram-Post-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/White-Pink-Wrapped-Gift-Giveaway-Instagram-Post-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/White-Pink-Wrapped-Gift-Giveaway-Instagram-Post-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/White-Pink-Wrapped-Gift-Giveaway-Instagram-Post.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Christmas came around the first year Ron and I dated, I had anxiety about his gift.\u00a0 Afraid I wouldn\u2019t like the present, I didn\u2019t want to hurt my love\u2019s feelings.\u00a0 However, as usual, I worried for nothing.\u00a0 The small heart pendant, featuring a pink flower encrusted with jewels, fit me perfectly, and expressed his feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every good and perfect gift comes from the Lord.\u00a0 Ron\u2019s knowledge of me helped him choose the perfect token to express his love for me.\u00a0 And God gave us the perfect gift we all needed when Jesus came to Earth in human form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, take stock of the perfect gifts you\u2019ve received from above.\u00a0 Thank the Lord for the Savior who paved the way to reconciliation and a relationship with our Creator.\u00a0 Then, list the divine gifts God has bestowed on you: family, friends, homes, food, transportation, clothing \u2014 the list becomes endless as we start counting our blessings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even more so than earthly fathers, our Divine Dad loves bestowing blessings upon us.\u00a0 When we seek and follow Him, we will discover joys that we can get no other way.\u00a0 The Lord wants to bless us, and when we use those blessings to help others, we bless God in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Live for the Savior, receive His gifts, and share them with all you meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Summer Fun Activity:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Go shopping for a new outfit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. When Christmas came around the first year Ron and I dated, I had anxiety about his gift.\u00a0 Afraid I wouldn\u2019t like the present, I didn\u2019t want to hurt my love\u2019s feelings.\u00a0 However, as usual, I worried for nothing.\u00a0 The small heart pendant, featuring a pink flower encrusted with jewels, fit me perfectly, and&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/18\/perfect-gift-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perfect Gift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12994,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions\/12994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}