{"id":936,"date":"2006-03-09T19:49:43","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/unexpected\/"},"modified":"2006-03-09T19:49:43","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T19:49:43","slug":"unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you handle the unexpected?&nbsp; Does fear come to pay you a visit?&nbsp; Do you smile and see it as a new chapter?&nbsp; Maybe all three&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we don&#8217;t fully understand life until we reach it&#8217;s end.&nbsp; St. Paul said we see in a mirror dimly.&nbsp; Certainly, to indicate that our vision is limited.&nbsp; I am convinced that making sense of life (inside of our own heads) is futile.<\/p>\n<p>Life will deliver unexpected opportunities and defeats.&nbsp; We would do well to stay in today.&nbsp; We would do well to suck out of life all that can be.&nbsp; In many ways that is what will produce harvest (legacy) to be proud of.&nbsp; It is a difficult art to master, but happiness is a next door neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>I understand why we need to live by faith.&nbsp; Life blooms when the eyes are shut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you handle the unexpected?&nbsp; Does fear come to pay you a visit?&nbsp; Do you smile and see it as a new chapter?&nbsp; Maybe all three&#8230; Maybe we don&#8217;t fully understand life until we reach it&#8217;s end.&nbsp; St. Paul said we see in a mirror dimly.&nbsp; Certainly, to indicate that our vision is limited.&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}