{"id":5388,"date":"2016-12-01T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devonline.us\/daily-e-votional\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T23:34:54","slug":"i-can-hardly-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/i-can-hardly-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"I CAN HARDLY WAIT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Revelation 21:4<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #c40000;\"><em>\u201cAnd God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this time of the year I experience the pangs of separation from my precious wife even more than ever. I recall special holidays where we laughed and gave thanks that we shared a love that many others could not imagine.<\/p>\n<p>There was one Christmas where we were separated. It was the Christmas of 1966. I was on an unaccompanied assignment with the U.S. Air Force at St. Anthony, Newfoundland, Canada. During that time there was a Christmas song that is still a favorite &#8212; \u201cI\u2019ll Be Home For Christmas.\u201d One line especially echoed my sentiments: <em>I\u2019ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams. <\/em>I was blessed to spend the next 48 Christmas celebrations with my dear Joyce.<\/p>\n<p>As I contemplate another Christmas without her, I recall how excited I was to be reunited with Joyce and our three children after that remote military assignment. I know that I will see my precious wife, our daughter Brenda, and all of our loved ones once again, and when I see them, there will never again be the pain of separation. Until then &#8230; \u201cI CAN HARDLY WAIT!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>May God richly bless you as you bless others by your words and actions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revelation 21:4 \u201cAnd God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.\u201d At this time of the year I experience the pangs of separation from my precious wife even more than ever. [&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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revelation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388","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=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}