{"id":13,"date":"2010-03-04T03:56:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T03:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=13"},"modified":"2013-06-29T01:40:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T01:40:47","slug":"sleepless-in-bk-03-04-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"The Pillowcase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Sleepless in BK so I decided to make my king size pillowcases into standard size by sewing them shorter. Each time I pierced the fabric thoughts of today&#8217;s events came to mind. Once I pulled the needle through the fabric it reminded me that God has a plan for each of us. The faster I sewed the more I would poke my finger. I could see that I was getting closer so I sewed faster growing impatient. The faster I tried to get to the end by rushing or skipping steps I would poke myself even harder or have to go back to fix my mistakes. At that moment I realized, everything happens in God&#8217;s time not ours. We need to be patient and do things one step at a time, it&#8217;s when we skip steps and think we know how to get there faster, we get poked. I began smiling at the realization that in all things you can&#8217;t jump ahead, baby steps is what it&#8217;s all about. We will get there when we are supposed to, and not before then.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nI guess it&#8217;s time for me to fall to sleep peacefully in God&#8217;s arms.<br \/>\nThank you for the pokes (reminders).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sleepless in BK so I decided to make my king size pillowcases into standard size by sewing them shorter. Each time I pierced the fabric thoughts of today&#8217;s events came to mind. Once I pulled the needle through the fabric it reminded me that God has a plan for each of us. The faster I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-and-in-between"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}