{"id":226,"date":"2012-06-16T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T01:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amysmic\/?p=226"},"modified":"2019-10-14T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T13:39:45","slug":"i-have-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"I Have Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2012 is a year I will never forget. And it&#8217;s only June!\u00a0These six months have been some of the most difficult of my life, and it is now tempting to live as if I am waiting for the next bomb to drop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I believe the Lord works all things for my good. I believe He is sovereign. I believe He is bigger than any devastating moment in my life.\u00a0In fact, I believe He&#8217;s ordained them and allowed them to happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The LORD&#8217;S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,<br \/>\nFor His compassions never fail. They\u00a0are new every morning;<br \/>\nGreat is Your faithfulness.<br \/>\n&#8220;The LORD is my portion,&#8221; says my soul, &#8220;Therefore I have hope in Him&#8221; (Lamentations 3:22-24).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He has always been faithful to me. Kathy Troccoli sings a lyric that simply says, <em>&#8220;You are Lord and all is well.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because He is Lord I can truly rest. During this earthly journey, more bombs will drop and I am actually okay with that. For His mercies are NEW every morning and He alone is my PORTION! He is growing me into His likeness with each passing day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because of Him, I have HOPE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2012 is a year I will never forget. And it&#8217;s only June!\u00a0These six months have been some of the most difficult of my life, and it is now tempting to live as if I am waiting for the next bomb to drop. I believe the Lord works all things for my good. I believe He &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/?p=226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Have Hope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amyandpatrickfata.com\/amyspen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}