{"id":4035,"date":"2016-09-27T08:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=4035"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T13:29:48","slug":"joy-in-the-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/joy-in-the-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy in the Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/travel-teddies-series-no-1555507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4042 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/travel-teddies-series-no-1555507-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"travel-teddies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/travel-teddies-series-no-1555507-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/travel-teddies-series-no-1555507-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/travel-teddies-series-no-1555507-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/travel-teddies-series-no-1555507.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were driving in the car (again :) ) when my daughter said,<em> &#8220;Daddy, when will we be done traveling and traveling and traveling and traveling???&#8221;<\/em> <strong><em>I laughed but honestly, she was voicing something I was already feeling!<\/em><\/strong> Unpacking, repacking, driving, and MORE driving can become a weary task.<em> But then, the Lord brought something to my mind. He reminded me of all the people that we&#8217;ve met in our travels.<\/em> We&#8217;ve spent time with family; we have visited\u00a0friends both old and new. \u00a0Just last week, I was privileged to meet a young boy with a great zeal to serve the Lord. He was full of questions, and his excitement was refreshing. In the same meeting, I met another missionary friend and we had a great time comparing stories and talking about what God has done! \u00a0 Yes, the journey is tiring but God gives us joy in the journey. So as I was driving the car, I looked at my daughter and said, &#8220;We still have a lot of traveling to do, sweet heart. But have you made friends?&#8221; Her eyes lit up and she started rattling off all the names of her new friends. <em>\u00a0Sometimes it&#8217;s a matter of perspective and God uses our children to remind us to keep the right perspective.<\/em>\u00a0:)<em><strong> I am so thankful for the blessings God gives us as we go through this journey.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were driving in the car (again :) ) when my daughter said, &#8220;Daddy, when will we be done traveling and traveling and traveling and traveling???&#8221; I laughed but honestly, she was voicing something I was already feeling! Unpacking, repacking, driving, and MORE driving can become a weary task. But then, the Lord brought something to my mind. He reminded &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/joy-in-the-journey\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4035"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4035\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}