{"id":378,"date":"2002-06-04T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-04T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2002\/06\/04\/378"},"modified":"2012-10-09T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T18:43:45","slug":"378","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2002\/06\/378.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Children are Sacramental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, you&#8217;d <em>think<\/em> that after seven years of fatherhood (and four children!) that I&#8217;d have understood this a little bit before now.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day struggles, that you forget what a <em>gift<\/em> your children are. And just how much grace we can receive through them.<\/p>\n<p>But today: I am, face it, a grump. I am tired, I am feeling the weight of the world on my shoulders from what I haven&#8217;t gotten done at work and at home, and I have more self-pity about this than I know what to do with.<\/p>\n<p>And Andrew, bless him, knows nothing of this. He just knows that Daddy is home. And he <em>laughs<\/em>, a pure bubbling laugh to cure what ails ya. And smiles at me with his million-dollar smile that says <em>I am full of joy and I love you, Daddy<\/em> even though it comes out more like &#8220;HA-ha! A goo ga ga SQUEAK! HA-ha!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>(After that, how can I mind cleaning the baby food off of his face?)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is what Grace looks like, transmitted through a 12-month old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, you&#8217;d think that after seven years of fatherhood (and four children!) that I&#8217;d have understood this a little bit before now. But it&#8217;s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day struggles, that you forget what a gift your children are. And just how much grace we can receive through them. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-most-important-things","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2sZgq-378","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}