{"id":1864,"date":"2007-04-14T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-14T17:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/expect-the-unexpected"},"modified":"2007-04-14T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-14T17:26:50","slug":"expect-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2007\/04\/14\/expect-the-unexpected\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect the unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Message&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>       The man whispered, &#8220;God, speak to me,&#8221; and a meadowlark<br \/>\n   sang.<\/p>\n<p>        But, the man did not hear.  So the man yelled, &#8220;God, speak to<br \/>\n   me&#8221; and the thunder rolled across the sky.<\/p>\n<p>       But, the man did not listen. The man looked around and said,<br \/>\n   &#8220;God let me see you.&#8221; And a star shined brightly.<\/p>\n<p>       But the man did not see. And, the man shouted, &#8220;God show<br \/>\n   me a miracle.&#8221; And, a life was born.<\/p>\n<p>       But, the man did not notice. So, the man cried out in despair,<br \/>\n   &#8220;Touch me God, and let me know you are here.&#8221; Whereupon,<br \/>\n   God reached down and touched the man. But, the man brushed<br \/>\n   the butterfly away &#8230;and walked on.<\/p>\n<p>       The man cried, &#8220;God, I need your help!&#8221; And an e-mail arrived<br \/>\n   reaching out with good news and encouragement.  But, the man<br \/>\n   deleted it and continued crying.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have found this to be a great reminder that God is always<br \/>\n   around us in the little and simple things that we take for granted<br \/>\n   &#8230;. even in our electronic age &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>       So don&#8217;t miss out on a blessing because it isn&#8217;t packaged the<br \/>\n   way that you expect.<\/p>\n<p>       Expect the unexpected&#8230;and Have A Happy Day!<br \/>\n                                                         &#8212;Author Unknown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Message&#8230; The man whispered, &#8220;God, speak to me,&#8221; and a meadowlark sang. But, the man did not hear. So the man yelled, &#8220;God, speak to me&#8221; and the thunder rolled across the sky. But, the man did not listen. The man looked around and said, &#8220;God let me see you.&#8221; And a star shined&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}