{"id":695,"date":"2011-12-31T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T19:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2011-12-31T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T19:44:16","slug":"embracing-a-happy-new-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/embracing-a-happy-new-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing a Happy New Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During this time of\u00a0year, many of us spend our days counting down to the end of the year with a myriad of thoughts about what \u201ccould have been.\u201d You know how it goes: the blaring reminders on TV, radio, and even at holiday parties that you\u2019re single, couldn\u2019t afford the best gifts or the pricey plane tickets to fly across country to be with family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I\u2019ve learned over the years is that no matter who is not there, what money we may not have, or how far away our families may be, there\u2019s something bigger that we can <em>always <\/em>rely on to give us the love we all desire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many clich\u00e9s about the holidays and the \u201creal reason for the season,\u201d but in its truest essence, God\u2019s greatest gift to us is the unconditional love that remains available every day of the year. God\u2019s love for us is real, tangible, and everywhere we go. He tells us in Romans 8:37-39:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yet amid all these things, we are more than conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us. For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u00a0 How great His love is for us! It surpasses all heartbreak and deficits that we have encountered throughout the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A shift in perspective keeps the most perfect love of all at the forefront and teaches us to lean on the blessings we have. Enjoy the holidays and feel the<br \/>\nlove from the one who sacrificed the most for us!\u00a0 All the best to you in the New Year!\u00a0 Cheers.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During this time of\u00a0year, many of us spend our days counting down to the end of the year with a myriad of thoughts about what \u201ccould have been.\u201d You know how it goes: the blaring reminders on TV, radio, and even at holiday parties that you\u2019re single, couldn\u2019t afford the best gifts or the pricey [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}