{"id":18763,"date":"2013-05-07T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T15:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=18763"},"modified":"2017-10-29T16:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T21:10:22","slug":"being-without","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/being-without\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Without"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18871 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/468352_651925488154119_231417758_o.jpg\" alt=\"468352_651925488154119_231417758_o\" width=\"1143\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/468352_651925488154119_231417758_o.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/468352_651925488154119_231417758_o-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/468352_651925488154119_231417758_o-768x249.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/468352_651925488154119_231417758_o-1024x331.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/468352_651925488154119_231417758_o-810x262.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/468352_651925488154119_231417758_o-1140x369.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1143px) 100vw, 1143px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With Mother&#8217;s Day just days away, I can&#8217;t help but think back to when I was not one. My house (and hands) are now full, but I can still clearly recall that feeling of being &#8220;without.&#8221; It is so easy to see now, what I couldn&#8217;t then. My greatest blessings were on their way. They were coming, I just couldn&#8217;t see them through the pain. To anyone who feels &#8220;without&#8221; &#8211; Whatever you are longing for&#8230;keep longing. Keep praying. Keep pushing forward. God comes. Your greatest blessings are on their way!<br \/>\nLove,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylivesignature.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/signatures.mylivesignature.com\/54489\/84\/CA43CE42B1A78F3D39348BC6A8DE1E18.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; With Mother&#8217;s Day just days away, I can&#8217;t help but think back to when I was not one. My house (and hands) are now full, but I can still clearly recall that feeling of being &#8220;without.&#8221; It is so easy to see now, what I couldn&#8217;t then. My greatest blessings were on their way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1018,1034,1024],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adoption-catharsis","category-lewis-family-2","category-inspiration-and-life-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}