{"id":7392,"date":"2014-08-17T04:49:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T08:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.dougbittinger.com\/blog\/?p=7392"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"being-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/being-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"BEING ALIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Calvin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is a wonderful thing: being alive.\u00a0 To be able to breathe, to see, to smell, and to touch.\u00a0 These things which we take for granted are vital to our health and well being.\u00a0 God in His creative grace has chosen to share a bit of His existence with us and we call it life.\u00a0 He has given the energy of existence to all living things and we are blessed by it.\u00a0 The sights and sounds of life explode before us and we are often unaware of their presence.\u00a0 The laughter of children, the buzz of bees, chirping birds, trees, flowers, friendship and worship are just some of the things that give us a sense of awe and celebration to being alive.\u00a0\u00a0Sometimes the crises of life pungently bring to our attention those simple aspects of our daily routine which have a marvelous capacity for our nurture.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Often in our search for the profound we miss the profundity of the simple.\u00a0 In our haste to show up at the important events of life we miss a thousand opportunities to allow little things to prepare us for big things.\u00a0\u00a0 In our search for the significant we miss some of\u00a0life’s most pertinent pictures.\u00a0 Life has its own candid camera as well as its serious productions.\u00a0 It is a video victory when we have eyes to see and can really see.\u00a0 It is an audio miracle to have ears to hear and really hear.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Being alive is an event worth celebrating.\u00a0 The more we call attention to our aliveness the more\u00a0grateful we are for being a part of God’s existence.\u00a0 Every day we receive multiple blessings for being alive.\u00a0 Let us count them.
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     It is a wonderful thing: being alive.  To be able to breathe, to see, to smell, and to touch.  These things which we take for granted are vital to our health and well being.  God in His creative grace has chosen to share a bit of His existence with us and we call it … Continue reading “BEING ALIVE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[26,57],"class_list":["post-7392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matters-of-faith","tag-life-2","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19171,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7392\/revisions\/19171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}