{"id":141,"date":"2011-06-04T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/2011\/06\/04\/grace-brings-contentment\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:20:09","slug":"grace-brings-contentment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/2011\/06\/04\/grace-brings-contentment\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Brings Contentment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<table class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cP5zdp6AxdM\/TeqoDT_kMRI\/AAAAAAAAANs\/l1MWfN_pS4s\/s1600\/DSCN4062.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cP5zdp6AxdM\/TeqoDT_kMRI\/AAAAAAAAANs\/l1MWfN_pS4s\/s320\/DSCN4062.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Whether the sun sets&#8230; \u00a0or rises<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dzAFSKRsBlA\/TeqoSy7kcyI\/AAAAAAAAANw\/_K9_QrLZ8g0\/s1600\/DSCN4158.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-dzAFSKRsBlA\/TeqoSy7kcyI\/AAAAAAAAANw\/_K9_QrLZ8g0\/s320\/DSCN4158.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">from childhood &#8211; to high school year book<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ilJ30Tp0UyE\/TeqpQTrR1PI\/AAAAAAAAAN0\/2CiVkZOyHGM\/s1600\/DSCN3249.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-ilJ30Tp0UyE\/TeqpQTrR1PI\/AAAAAAAAAN0\/2CiVkZOyHGM\/s320\/DSCN3249.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"260\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 or your senior picture all faded out&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">just remember, you will never fade out of what the plan is for you, it will just keep changing as you do. It&#8217;s all just the way it is supposed to be.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LrH9j8CkBM0\/Teqp3I5XLTI\/AAAAAAAAAN4\/pp1GmhQBXrc\/s1600\/DSCN3250.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LrH9j8CkBM0\/Teqp3I5XLTI\/AAAAAAAAAN4\/pp1GmhQBXrc\/s320\/DSCN3250.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>Please read below it&#8217;s awesome!<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I was told by someone very special to me and it made me laugh and think and really think-\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>&#8220;If you wanna see GOD laugh, tell him your plans.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">What a great and true thing to say, I wish I would of thought of that one myself.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Let me see how many times did we make our 5 year plan? Seriously, from when we were kids and wanted to be doctors, veterinarians, lawyers, Jaques Cousteau&#8217;s, actors, models, singers-moonwalkers (you get the idea) we all had these BIG plans for what we WERE going to do when we grew up. I had so many, from gymnastics, ice skater, a character at Disney World- Farrah Fawcett from the Noxzema commercial with Bob Griese that I would sing repeatedly with gusto in my bathroom mirror with my hair brush. If you are too young and don&#8217;t know that commercial, she was also one of Charlie&#8217;s Angles- and\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bob Griese was a great quarterback for the Miami Dolphins back in 1912. Kidding-\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">We all have dreams, thoughts and plans for ourselves because that is what we are supposed to do, &#8230; or not?\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I would love to hear what YOUR 5 year plan was when you were little tike? When you left high school or college? What it is you are doing now? From that little girl or boy in each of us how many times &#8220;your career-dreams&#8221; have changed and what are you doing now? \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">You can answer on my blog, facebook fan page, or twitter. This should be so much fun to share with all our friends all over the world.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">LOVE ALWAYS-ALWAYS LOVE&#8230;.<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Brenda Swanson on keeping-staying-straying or whatever your path is or turned out to be, just know that it is the right one&#8230; keep breathing and smile at everyone you see today and everyday. \u00a0www.45andfabulous.com<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the sun sets&#8230; \u00a0or rises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}