{"id":11387,"date":"2012-07-06T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2012-07-06T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T20:30:00","slug":"heading-to-a-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/heading-to-a-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading to a retreat&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/heading-to-a-retreat\/img_2217\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11388\" title=\"Heading to a retreat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2217-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2217-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2217-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2217-640x640.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_2217.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This weekend I\u2019m heading to a ladies retreat with the women from the church where my kids go to school.<\/p>\n<p>I am really looking forward to spending time with these women and I am looking forward to what God has in store for me&#8230; and for each of us.<\/p>\n<p>What especially amazes me is that as we are driving up, each of us in the car has shared her own apprehension about coming this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I seldom have any apprehension about any retreat, so I thought I had to be the only one wondering. But I wasn\u2019t and I am not.<\/p>\n<p>Each of us has our own reasons that almost held us back and yet each of us is here, ready to experience what God has for us.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what is ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what each of us will be saying to each other and ourselves on Sunday as we ride home.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that each of us will be so glad that we overcame those tiny voices, those overwhelming tasks, those things that almost kept us at home, away from the retreat.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what He has in store&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I\u2019m heading to a ladies retreat with the women from the church where my kids go to school. I am really looking forward to spending time with these women and I am looking forward to what God has in store for me&#8230; and for each of us. What especially amazes me is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moms-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11391,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions\/11391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}