{"id":549,"date":"2012-02-03T23:50:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adeyesalem.com\/2012\/02\/choosing-to-bloom\/"},"modified":"2012-02-03T23:50:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T23:50:00","slug":"choosing-to-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adeyesalem.com\/choosing-to-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"choosing to bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and <b>winter<\/b>, day and night.&#8221;&nbsp; Genesis 8:22<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-JaGKG8kb21U\/TyxsgFe7GgI\/AAAAAAAAJuU\/zrPTJwSGlss\/s800\/DSC_0002.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and <b>winter<\/b>.&#8221;&nbsp; Psalm 74:17<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-Kkm8ePLTCkQ\/TyxsVVDUkJI\/AAAAAAAAJuM\/uojPV29TxZs\/s800\/DSC_0001.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has no fear of <b>winter<\/b> for her household, for everyone has warm clothes.&#8221;&nbsp; Proverbs 21:31<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-waNYUmWk2KE\/TyxspdG8TXI\/AAAAAAAAJuc\/AVKHBg0U5XI\/s800\/DSC_0004.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet true godliness with <i>contentment<\/i> is itself great wealth.&#8221;&nbsp; 1 Timothy 6:6<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-MDp2O2a18Yo\/Tyxs6apCV0I\/AAAAAAAAJus\/39a5GD0a4F0\/s800\/DSC_1105.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Learning&nbsp;daily to find deep, satisfying, unwavering contentment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-nyZLb_STJ0w\/Tyxswp4QbBI\/AAAAAAAAJuk\/zil8-Q8N8xg\/s800\/DSC_1106.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And choosing this day to bloom where He has planted me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.&#8221;&nbsp; Genesis 8:22 &#8220;You set the boundaries of the earth, and you made both summer and winter.&#8221;&nbsp; Psalm 74:17 &#8220;She has no fear of winter for her household, for everyone has warm clothes.&#8221;&nbsp; Proverbs 21:31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.5 (Yoast SEO v22.6) - 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