{"id":12740,"date":"2013-09-02T15:09:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=12740"},"modified":"2013-09-02T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:15:13","slug":"how-we-might-see-and-be-seen-in-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/how-we-might-see-and-be-seen-in-heaven\/","title":{"rendered":"How we might see, and be seen, in Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/just-for-you-post.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11645\" alt=\"just-for-you-post\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/just-for-you-post.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/just-for-you-post.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/just-for-you-post-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/just-for-you-post-200x115.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was just thinking about meeting up with old school friends and became a little sad about the fact that we&#8217;ll never all be together again, just us. And then the thought entered my mind that I&#8217;d see many of them again in Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>But then a not so nice thought popped in&#8211; I&#8217;d see others, too, so how could I just see the people I want to see and not those that maybe I didn&#8217;t enjoy quite as much, without hurting anyone&#8217;s feelings?<\/p>\n<p><strong>And then a much better thought popped into my head and made me tingle and feel warm all over.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Want to know what it was?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I thought about the fact that in Heaven, maybe I&#8217;ll see everyone the way that our Father does&#8211; Anything I might have seen as negative will be completely washed over by seeing each person as a child of God and all those gorgeous characteristics that come with that. And those who maybe didn&#8217;t like me so much will see me that way, too.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How cool is that?!<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be amazing if we could look past the negative and see only that now, too?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just thinking about meeting up with old school friends and became a little sad about the fact that we&#8217;ll never all be together again, just us. And then the thought entered my mind that I&#8217;d see many of them again in Heaven. But then a not so nice thought popped in&#8211; I&#8217;d see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[438,365],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal","category-inspiration-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12743,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12740\/revisions\/12743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}