{"id":310,"date":"2018-03-24T23:36:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=310"},"modified":"2019-12-10T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:44:11","slug":"finding-a-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/24\/finding-a-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"poetry\">\n<p class=\"line\"><em><strong><span id=\"en-NIV-14240\" class=\"text Ps-23-4\">&#8220;Even though I walk<\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-23-4\">through the darkest valley,<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><span class=\"text Ps-23-4\">I will fear no evil,<\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-23-4\">for you are with me;<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><span class=\"text Ps-23-4\">your rod and your staff,<\/span><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong><span class=\"indent-1\"><span class=\"indent-1-breaks\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"text Ps-23-4\">they comfort me.&#8221;\u00a0 Psalm 23:4<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It has been an exhausting week.\u00a0 I attended two Celebrations of Life.\u00a0 Both sons called home to heaven, from an earthly perspective much too soon.\u00a0 Both of them knew Jesus.\u00a0 Thank God.\u00a0 It gives us the assurance of seeing them again.<br \/>\nDeath is never something which gets easier.\u00a0 No matter how the person died, the hole left behind is irreplaceable.\u00a0 I once heard it described like pulling a nail out of a piece of wood, the hole still remains, nothing can ever fill it.<br \/>\nMy heart grieves for the families of these two men.\u00a0 They have been left with a hole in their lives.\u00a0 Join me in praying for them as they begin to find their new normal after tragic losses.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"poetry top-05\">\n<p class=\"line\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even though I walk \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for you are with me; your rod and your staff, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0they comfort me.&#8221;\u00a0 Psalm 23:4 It has been an exhausting week.\u00a0 I attended two Celebrations of Life.\u00a0 Both sons called home to heaven, from an earthly perspective much too soon.\u00a0 Both of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/24\/finding-a-new-normal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding a New Normal<\/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-310","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\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}