{"id":162,"date":"2013-09-05T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/?p=162"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:58:04","slug":"keeping-peace-in-my-heart-simplifying-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/2013\/09\/keeping-peace-in-my-heart-simplifying-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping peace in my heart, simplifying life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The impression I keep getting is for me to simplify life&#8230;. \u00a0to get healthy&#8230;. \u00a0to stay unstressed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>To simplify life, changes are needed, these can create stress in the transition times. \u00a0But I had this impression of Pappa God cupping His hands and looking into them and grinning and smiling and laughing&#8230;.. \u00a0He was looking at my future! \u00a0So when I start to wonder and feel the stress of the transitions I remember His sweet encouragement and I know that my future is good!<\/p>\n<p>As I consider the letting go of something that I have done for five years and have (mostly) enjoyed, \u00a0I remember an impression in my time with God where He seemed to be saying that I could hang onto what I had and He would be OK with that&#8230;. \u00a0or I could let it go. \u00a0If I let it go, then He would be able to bring me something better that I would really love. \u00a0So, I&#8217;m letting some things go&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In transition times, keep focus on the promise&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Lynn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impression I keep getting is for me to simplify life&#8230;. \u00a0to get healthy&#8230;. \u00a0to stay unstressed&#8230;. To simplify life, changes are needed, these can create stress in the transition times. \u00a0But I had this impression of Pappa God cupping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/2013\/09\/keeping-peace-in-my-heart-simplifying-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiftchurch.com\/v2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}