{"id":230,"date":"2016-06-19T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/?p=230"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:41:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T19:41:38","slug":"a-40-year-adventure-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/a-40-year-adventure-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"A 40-Year Adventure Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlanguages.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Wedding-Invitation-crop-more.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1154 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.heartlanguages.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Wedding-Invitation-crop-more.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding Invitation crop more\" width=\"506\" height=\"647\" \/><\/a>This isn&#8217;t a ministry update&#8230; then again,\u00a0it is. Read on&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bill writes: About 41 years ago, this kid (me) asked his best friend, who also happened to be the most beautiful girl he&#8217;d ever met (Donna), to marry him and she said yes. A year later we got married and started the most amazing adventure together: 40 years and counting.<\/p>\n<p>40 years. We can hardly believe it, yet looking back we see the evidence that\u00a0we&#8217;ve done four decades worth of living&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Two beautiful daughters, a couple of awesome sons-in-law, and the world&#8217;s cutest grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A life full of memories and joy.<\/p>\n<p>And the Word of God in the Palawano language.<\/p>\n<p>We started out with two things we were not going to let go of: God, and each other. And while it&#8217;s not always been easy or even fun (life never is), it has been awesome, and worth it all. And mostly fun! We called everything we went through &#8220;adventures.&#8221; And like hobbits, we knew that adventures can sometimes be\u00a0<em>uncomfortable&#8211;<\/em>and\u00a0sometimes they were. They might even make us\u00a0<em>late for dinner<\/em>&#8211;and they often did. But they were also delightful.<\/p>\n<p>The photo is our wedding invitation photo taken in San Clemente Canyon January 2, 1976. And even that was an adventure. I was home on an all-too-short Christmas break, we were planning a wedding, and we each had one parent in the hospital. We were late for dinner a few times.<\/p>\n<p>40 years. I&#8217;d do it again in a heartbeat. I can&#8217;t, of course, but I will sign up for another 40.<\/p>\n<p>I thank God every day for this beautiful woman and the life God has given us&#8230; now, looking back&#8230; and looking ahead. I am blessed.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Anniversary, Donna! It&#8217;s been a wonderful life and there&#8217;s much more to come.<\/p>\n<p>-Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a ministry update&#8230; then again,\u00a0it is. Read on&#8230; &nbsp; Bill writes: About 41 years ago, this kid (me) asked his best friend, who also happened to be the most beautiful girl he&#8217;d ever met (Donna), to marry him and she said yes. A year later we got married and started the most amazing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[448,637],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","tag-ethnos360","tag-new-tribes-mission","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bill-davis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}