{"id":728,"date":"2009-02-04T22:53:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T02:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2009\/02\/04\/grateful-for-the-lessons\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T22:53:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T02:53:49","slug":"grateful-for-the-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=728","title":{"rendered":"Grateful for the Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We even want to be grateful for the lessons we have.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t run from the lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us.\u00c2\u00a0 As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.\u00c2\u00a0 I now rejoice whenever I see another portion of the dark side of myself.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that it means that I am ready to let go of something that has been hindering my life.\u00c2\u00a0 I say, &#8220;Thank you for showing me this, so I can heal it and move on.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 So, whether the lesson is a &#8220;problem&#8221; that has cropped up, or an opportunity to see an old, negative pattern within us that it is time to let go of, rejoice!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Louise L. Hay, <em>Gratitude: A Way of Life, <\/em>p. 4-5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We even want to be grateful for the lessons we have.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t run from the lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us.\u00c2\u00a0 As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.\u00c2\u00a0 I now rejoice whenever I see another portion of the dark side of myself.\u00c2\u00a0 I know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,35,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-growth","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}