{"id":385,"date":"2013-09-21T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T16:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2013-09-21T16:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T16:36:34","slug":"always-have-a-focus-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Always have a focus point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">There are confusions, dark clouds and fear all around us. It&#8217;s up to us to clear our vision and strengthen our stance to walk strongly through it all. We must <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">be still and silent so <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">we can hear the words <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">of encouragement in the distance.<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> In our time of weakness we need to look within ourselves and find the courage that we bury deep down and let it come to surface. <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Find the <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">beauty around us and take the love and hope <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">it provides <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">so that we can lift <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">ourselves up and float <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">through <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">the pain and confusion. Things are never perfect and some people will hurt you but it&#8217;s what you do with that hurt that molds you. Everything that led up to right now helped make you the person you are and continues to create the person you will be. We need to be stronger than them. We need to believe in our heart that God is holding us in his arms and watching over all the things that need to be in your life. He won&#8217;t let you fall without being your pillow of strength and light. That doesn&#8217;t mean we will not get bruised. It means the bruises will only be on the surface but the healing power underneath the surface is what will make them fade in time. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Always have a focus point. It&#8217;s your picture of inspiration, hope, unconditional love and healing. I have mine and they are adorably cute.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/891917_714459265247282_1115609034_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-386 aligncenter\" alt=\"891917_714459265247282_1115609034_o\" src=\"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/891917_714459265247282_1115609034_o-272x300.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/891917_714459265247282_1115609034_o-272x300.jpg 272w, http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/891917_714459265247282_1115609034_o-930x1024.jpg 930w, http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/891917_714459265247282_1115609034_o-588x647.jpg 588w, http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/891917_714459265247282_1115609034_o.jpg 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 272px) 100vw, 272px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are confusions, dark clouds and fear all around us. It&#8217;s up to us to clear our vision and strengthen our stance to walk strongly through it all. We must be still and silent so we can hear the words of encouragement in the distance. In our time of weakness we need to look within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}