{"id":7797,"date":"2021-12-23T15:24:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/?p=7797"},"modified":"2021-12-23T15:24:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T23:24:46","slug":"thoughful-thursday-christmas-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/2021\/12\/23\/thoughful-thursday-christmas-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughful Thursday: Christmas Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the official season of LOVE, HOPE, JOY &amp; PEACE, but for me it\u2019s just as much about GRATITUDE.<\/p>\n<p>GRATITUDE that God LOVES us so much that he sent his son into the world to reconcile us with him.<br \/>\nGRATITUDE for the HOPE that the birth of Christ gives us.<br \/>\nGRATITUDE for the JOY that would not be possible without that Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Because the LOVE, HOPE and JOY that God grants us through Christ in not based on our ever-changing circumstances, we have access to them in good times and bad; Christmas time and all time.<\/p>\n<p>My Christmas prayer for you is that no matter your circumstances, your\u00a0GRATITUDE for the gifts of LOVE, HOPE &amp; JOY<br \/>\nlead you to a PEACE that only God can give.<\/p>\n<p>God bless you this Christmas!<br \/>\nJL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the official season of LOVE, HOPE, JOY &amp; PEACE, but for me it\u2019s just as much about GRATITUDE. GRATITUDE that God LOVES us so much that he sent his son into the world to reconcile us with him. GRATITUDE for the HOPE that the birth of Christ gives us. GRATITUDE for the JOY that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,59,113,294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-church-news","category-newsletters","category-thoughtful-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7799,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7797\/revisions\/7799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefount.church\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}