{"id":262,"date":"2008-10-18T23:58:54","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T05:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-10-18T23:58:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T05:58:54","slug":"my-place-of-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"My place of refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I posted a couple of months ago that I was working on a &#8216;prayer room&#8217; in our home.  It&#8217;s a tiny room in our basement (8&#8217;x7&#8242;) that we renovated when we put up insulation .  Previously, it was a very ugly storage room.  Well, we got up the drywall eventually and then it took several months before I finished with all the mudding and sanding (boy is that tedious, time-consuming work!).   We decided that this room would be for me &#8211; my own special place where I can escape from everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>The room has been primed and painted and I&#8217;ve been using it for a few months now.  I had ordered some Partylite holders (a tealight lamp that hangs from the ceiling, a beautiful wall sconce that I&#8217;ve been eyeing for a long time now and this neat little end table with candles) and I received those last weekend.  Today I painted the door that was an ugly grey\/brown color and hung a print that I&#8217;ve wanted to have in this room.  The transformation is nearly complete.  I purchased some muslin today and am hoping to hang that from the overhead floor joists as a makeshift ceiling tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>My prayer room is loaded with candles (when I use this room, I just go on candlelight) as well as a CD player with soothing &#8216;relaxation&#8217; music.  I&#8217;ve really been enjoying my room and find that it really helps when I use it.  Life is so busy and particularly stressful at this time of the year (with work and home circumstances).  I can feel myself getting sucked into a vortex of chaos if I don&#8217;t take some time to be by myself.  This room is my refuge in the midst of the storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I posted a couple of months ago that I was working on a &#8216;prayer room&#8217; in our home. It&#8217;s a tiny room in [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=262\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}