{"id":3636,"date":"2014-02-25T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/dailyevotional\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2014-02-24T13:08:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:08:46","slug":"where-did-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/where-did-it-go\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE DID IT GO?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Psalm 39:4<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><em><span style=\"color: #c40000;\">Show me, Lord, my life\u2019s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">In a few weeks I will be celebrating my 80<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. There is a saying that, at this age,\u00a0 you do not celebrate your birthdays, you just endure them. That sounds more than a little pessimistic, but I cannot disagree too much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">It seems such a very short time ago when Joyce and I were considered part of the youth group. There was no defined time when we stopped being &#8220;young people&#8221; and advanced\u00a0 on to the next age bracket&#8211;whatever that is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">So as time flies by, does age really count? Many of the most-productive minds had their finest years into their 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s. \u00a0Yeah! There is hope for us yet!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">Rather than sitting around and bemoaning the fact that we are getting older, we need to tighten our belts and ask the Lord what our next assignment is. Look for new opportunities to reach out and impact our world for Jesus Christ. We need to forget where our youth went and get busy spending our golden years!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"justify\">May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 39:4 Show me, Lord, my life\u2019s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is. In a few weeks I will be celebrating my 80th birthday. There is a saying that, at this age,\u00a0 you do not celebrate your birthdays, you just endure them. That sounds more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}