{"id":129,"date":"2008-08-18T22:58:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/2008\/08\/18\/a-new-day\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T22:58:57","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T02:58:57","slug":"a-new-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"A New Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today I had some things cast up to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things I have apologized for about a dozen times, with tears, but the person wronged has not been willing to forgive me, and indeed has cast the worst possible interpretation on the things I said.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what?\u00c2\u00a0 God forgives me!\u00c2\u00a0 And I honestly can say that, though it hurts to have someone I love so angry with me, God is giving me forgiveness &#8212; and freedom &#8212; about it.<\/p>\n<p>Then tonight, I was listening to The Best of Avalon, and their song, &#8220;A New Day,&#8221; so beautifully sums up how I feel.<\/p>\n<p>Forgiveness feels GOOD &#8212; both receiving it from God for yourself and for others.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to &#8220;A New Day&#8221; with lyrics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jAKfTRlnA0I&#038;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jAKfTRlnA0I&#038;feature=related<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, today I had some things cast up to me.\u00c2\u00a0 Some things I have apologized for about a dozen times, with tears, but the person wronged has not been willing to forgive me, and indeed has cast the worst possible interpretation on the things I said. But you know what?\u00c2\u00a0 God forgives me!\u00c2\u00a0 And 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":[4,26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional-thoughts","category-forgiveness","category-joy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderjourneys\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}