{"id":954,"date":"2006-03-23T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=954"},"modified":"2006-03-23T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T23:14:15","slug":"after-those-hard-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/after-those-hard-times\/","title":{"rendered":"After those hard times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Just realized it&#8217;s almost 2 weeks i haven&#8217;t written anything in my blog. Seems, indeed life has been very busy these 2 weeks. At work, with the new colleague, one under my mentorship, and the other one is taking over my project&#8230;so&#8230;consuming my own working time.<\/p>\n<p>At church the group is growing. I thank God for this. Hmm, yah&#8230;good thing, but also more things..<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The weekends were also busy with meetings (committee kind as well as individuals)&#8230;made me wanting so much to just being alone.<\/p>\n<p>Last nite Andrew sang the song i sang when i left Indonesia 8 years ago. Taken from Psalm 23. I remember the ending, &#8220;eventhough i shall walk through the valley of shadow of death, i shall fear no evil, because You are with me. I shall not fear to step forward&#8221;. =)<\/p>\n<p>Yah, i remembered singing it with my cousin. I went to UK, and he went to Australia. We sang that song, and we trully meant it. Because God is our Shepherd, we go on\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>. It reminded me of God&#8217;s faithfulness. From that day, there have been so many things, and I can testify, that not a single moment, not a single, God has abandoned me. In all trials, He&#8217;s always there. He has not fail to keep all His promises. Thank You Lord.<\/p>\n<p>So yah\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>\u00a0Now i&#8217;ve renewed strength and courage to face this year, to face tomorrow, and to face now\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s.tabulas.com\/ik\/smilies\/yellow\/smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude42 Just realized it&#8217;s almost 2 weeks i haven&#8217;t written anything in my blog. Seems, indeed life has been very busy these 2 weeks. At work, with the new colleague, one under my mentorship, and the other one is taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/after-those-hard-times\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1085,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/psalm-of-a-clay\/","url_meta":{"origin":954,"position":0},"title":"Psalm of a Clay","author":"clay","date":"August 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Here as promised\u00a0) Still not perfect.....but yah...its my first try\u00a0\u00a0hehe \u00a0 \u00a0 The Lord is my Potter, I shall not be ugly. 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Particularly in the current situation of ongoing battle of LGBT issues, the word is relevant: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Encouraged&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Encouraged","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/category\/emotion\/encouraged\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}