{"id":218,"date":"2008-03-07T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T16:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-03-08T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T03:00:07","slug":"cheers-to-two-favorite-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Cheers to Two of my Favorite People!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is dedicated with love to two very dear friends that I miss very much.\u00c2\u00a0 Mattie, your life has inspired mine so many times.\u00c2\u00a0 I love you for many reasons, but you have especially impacted my life with your genuine honesty and forthright manner.\u00c2\u00a0 In this world where we have learned too well how to hide our true selves away behind smiles and polished words &#8230; I deeply appreciate real people, probably above all because it speaks to the need of my own heart.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank-you.\u00c2\u00a0 God blesses you for that by causing you to grow and grow in Him.\u00c2\u00a0 I love you.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a great joy to see you holding your very own grandson, and imagine the warm twinkle in your beautiful eyes when you look at\u00c2\u00a0him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_9304_2.JPG\" alt=\"img_9304_2.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My most recent &#8216;favorite mother&#8217; is my dear heart-friend and &#8216;cousin-in-law&#8217; (or was that &#8216;sister&#8217;?). Congratulations and welcome to your precious little son! \u00c2\u00a0What a joy to see you delighting in your own baby &#8230; I can hardly wait to see and hug you both.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank-you, Melissa, for your example of fervent love for God and your hubby and now your tiny son.\u00c2\u00a0 I pray the blessing of God would pour out upon you and give you much rest in Him every day.\u00c2\u00a0 You may think you are far away and unnoticed, but this is to encourage you otherwise.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0You are my heroine.\u00c2\u00a0 I love you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/img_9226.JPG\" alt=\"img_9226.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is dedicated with love to two very dear friends that I miss very much.\u00c2\u00a0 Mattie, your life has inspired mine so many times.\u00c2\u00a0 I love you for many reasons, but you have especially impacted my life with your genuine honesty and forthright manner.\u00c2\u00a0 In this world where we have learned too well how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}