{"id":38,"date":"2009-09-01T14:37:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T19:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/?p=38"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T22:04:50","slug":"stretching-means-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/2009\/09\/01\/stretching-means-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretching Means Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Waukesha<\/a>The swinging motion has done its job.\u00a0 Her binky dangles, its usefulness no longer needed.\u00a0\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t sleep long so I must catch the act as it happens. \u00a0I watch her and anticipate her waking moment. \u00a0She is dressed in pink and snuggled with her blanket.\u00a0\u00a0 The room is filled with other nursery noises but she remains asleep and undisturbed.\u00a0 As I care for the other children I continue to look her way, watching and waiting.\u00a0 Waiting for that moment \u2026 and then it happens \u2026 her eyes flutter a bit and then her little arms reach high into the air.\u00a0 She s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-s and I smile.<\/p>\n

When our children were infants, we were told that when they stretched, they were growing.\u00a0 As I watched this wonderful activity of stretching, I was reminded of that, and prayed that God would grow these little ones up to love and serve Him.\u00a0\u00a0 I also wondered if I am stretching and growing in a manner that is pleasing to the Lord.\u00a0 Part of the growing process for me is yielding to the Master.\u00a0 I love being with these little ones and getting to know their dads and moms.\u00a0 I am also thankful for the lessons He is teaching me through them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The swinging motion has done its job.\u00a0 Her binky dangles, its usefulness no longer needed.\u00a0\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t sleep long so I must catch the act as it happens. \u00a0I watch her and anticipate her waking moment. \u00a0She is dressed in pink and snuggled with her blanket.\u00a0\u00a0 The room is filled with other nursery noises but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"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":[696,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bible-school","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jared-jantz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}