{"id":27,"date":"2004-11-12T21:37:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-13T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=28"},"modified":"2004-11-12T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2004-11-13T03:37:48","slug":"solitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Solitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I practiced some solitude.  A friend let me use his cabin and I headed off to the lake.  What a beautiful day!  I absolutely LOVE being in nature.  I grew up on a farm and would always be tramping around the pasture or down at the creek.  The reason I went for some solitude was really to have a serious talk with God.  My life has felt like its been in a lot of turmoil lately, and I was at the point where I had had enough.  I wanted to go someplace quiet, where there were no distractions and tell God what was on my heart and hear what was on His.  Another <a href=\"http:\/\/coffeewithgod.blogspot.com\">friend<\/a> of mine goes out for coffee with God.  I think I&#8217;d say I go for walks with God; not often enough, mind you, but when I do go for a walk with God, I seem to hear Him more clearly than when I&#8217;m doing anything else.  So, God and I went for a walk in the fields and pastureland by the lake.  And I talked with God and He talked with me.  Wow!  I feel a lot better.  Nothing like putting things into perspective.  Does it mean my life is back in order?  No, not really, but I&#8217;m looking at my life as if I&#8217;ve been give the right pair of glasses again.  So everything doesn&#8217;t seem so daunting, and God doesn&#8217;t seem so small.  I know I&#8217;ll be ok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I practiced some solitude. A friend let me use his cabin and I headed off to the lake. What a beautiful day! I absolutely [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=27\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}