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<\/a>First of all, I want to wish my husband Mason a happy birthday! He has entered a new season of life and it\u2019s such a joy to be on this journey with him. He is such a great partner to do life with.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Next, I\u2019d like to wish Full Measure of Joy a happy birthday! Today marks four years since my very first blog post. All I can say is I have been blessed by God\u2019s faithfulness. His gentle reminders, nudges and insights have been the driving force behind FMoJ. All the glory and honor goes directly to Him!<\/p>\n
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Now, for some news that has happened since I was \u201clive\u201d on my blog.<\/p>\n
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My son, Philip has found the gal of his dreams! They are engaged and will be married on March 19. It\u2019s been fun to help with wedding plans. Heather has become extra special to me because she loves my baby. Heather brings three beautiful children into their marriage, so more grandchildren for me! Needless to say, I\u2019m excited. Way to go Philip and Heather!<\/p>\n
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And to add to this bliss, they are expecting a little bundle of joy to join their family late July. My cup runneth over!<\/p>\n
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At church, we\u2019ve just completed a major worship auditorium renovation in just a month. How blessed we\u2019ve been at Rocky to see God\u2019s hand work and move through this process. We\u2019ve seen prayers answered, lives touched and obstacles removed each day of this transformation. We open up the doors to this new worship area tomorrow morning. There will be celebration and rejoicing\u2026but I am most excited for the five people who have chosen to be baptized on this big day at Rocky. My heart will be filled with joy and thanksgiving. I can hardly wait!<\/p>\n
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My time away from writing a daily blog has been spent studying and writing a Bible study on 1 and 2 Peter. The ladies in my Thursday morning Bible study are working on week one as I type this post. I pray that they will be blessed by what I\u2019ve written. I pray that they will hear God\u2019s message clearly through my words. And most of all I pray that God\u2019s Spirit will touch their hearts and that they will find transformation through the work done in this Bible study.<\/p>\n
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The study is titled, Get Yourself Ready<\/em> and I was drawn to three specific areas that Peter wrote about that we need to be preparing for. First, persecution. Perhaps it\u2019s time for us as American Christians to consider this possibility. If and when it does occur, will you be ready? Second, we need to get ourselves ready to recognize false teaching. How would you fair against a false teacher? And finally, we need to prepare ourselves for the second coming of Jesus, the Messiah. There is much to be done and Peter points us in the right direction for this process.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I want to close today by sharing some beautiful words from 1 Peter. I pray that you will find great comfort in these verses and that you will believe them with all of your heart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cGrace and peace be yours in abundance. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade\u2014kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God\u2019s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.\u201d<\/em> (1 Peter 1:2b-5 \u2013 NIV)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grace and peace be yours in abundance,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Donna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have missed you! I am so excited to be sitting at my computer and writing a blog again! Thank you for sticking with me through this sabbatical period. It\u2019s been a good few months and I have so much to share with you! First of all, I want to wish my husband […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,8,246,3770,17,3874,14],"tags":[5278,5279,5277,5276,1797,5274,5275,370],"class_list":["post-5364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding-god","category-following-god","category-glorifying-god","category-honoring-god","category-listen","category-obeying-god","category-put-on","category-seeking-god","tag-1-and-2-peter","tag-1-peter-12-5","tag-baby","tag-engagement","tag-happy-birthday","tag-happy-happy-birthday","tag-news","tag-peter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5366,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5364\/revisions\/5366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullmeasureofjoy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}