{"id":107,"date":"2010-06-15T21:53:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michel2010.name\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2010-06-15T21:53:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T03:53:26","slug":"the-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2010\/06\/15\/the-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grandpa was buried today. \u00a0He was a WWII vet, so he had the honor\u00a0guard, the rifle shots, and Grandma got a flag. \u00a0I was really moved. \u00a0A country thanking one of it&#8217;s soldiers for his service. \u00a0It is right and good that we should do so.<\/p>\n<p>God has also been gently teaching me this week. \u00a0I learned things about Grandpa I never knew. \u00a0He had a kinder gentler side I was un-aware of. \u00a0How silly I am to assume that I can see the big picture when I so\u00a0obviously\u00a0cannot. \u00a0How quickly I jump to conclusions based on my own short sited observations. \u00a0Here is the kicker though. \u00a0My observations are not in-correct (granted, they often are, but not always). \u00a0The problem is I am only correctly observing the small part I can see. \u00a0I am missing the greater whole. \u00a0Now I&#8217;m starting to ramble, so I&#8217;ll stop.<\/p>\n<p>Psalms 105  Simply a remembrance of what God did for Israel.  It is odd (sad really) how quickly I forget what God has done for me, how quickly I forget His provision for me.  God knows people are like this, so He constantly is reminding us of what He has done, He constantly tells us to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Proverbs 5:22-23  <em>His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.  He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Be careful Eric, your sin will bind you,  and you will go astray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandpa was buried today. \u00a0He was a WWII vet, so he had the honor\u00a0guard, the rifle shots, and Grandma got a flag. \u00a0I was really moved. \u00a0A country thanking one of it&#8217;s soldiers for his service. \u00a0It is right and good that we should do so. God has also been gently teaching me this week. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/2010\/06\/15\/the-funeral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Funeral&#8221;<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.michel2010.name\/eric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}