{"id":2837,"date":"2020-12-23T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2020-12-30T20:36:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T02:36:30","slug":"new-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/?p=2837","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-scaled.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2834\" src=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-200x133.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-800x534.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-1200x801.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/seedling-and-sun-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even though we have all seen the month of January before, we have never seen January 2021 before.\u00a0 We have seen new years before, but we have never seen this new year before.\u00a0 Each year, as each day, is a reset, a fresh opportunity to make and create something different than what has been.<\/p>\n<p>Purpose to turn away from the stress, fear and disappointment of 2020, and decide to have a fresh, expectant perspective as you look toward the new year ahead.\u00a0 Focus on the day you are living, dedicating yourself to doing your best and looking for God\u2019s blessings, moment by moment.\u00a0 Be grateful for His goodness as you enjoy family, friends and successful endeavors.\u00a0 Do not bring what was into what is now.\u00a0 And do not waste what is now thinking too much about what might be.\u00a0 Live right now.<\/p>\n<p>Let 2021 be the year you determine to use every day to accomplish your God-given destiny and use every opportunity to contribute to the increase of God\u2019s kingdom. \u00a0Pursue peace and look for ways to share God\u2019s love and grace with the world around you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though we have all seen the month of January before, we have never seen January 2021 before.\u00a0 We have seen new years before, but we have never seen this new year before.\u00a0 Each year, as each day, is a reset, a fresh opportunity to make and create something different than what has been. Purpose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2844,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forvidas.org\/blogmg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}