{"id":1222,"date":"2013-04-11T17:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2015-10-23T09:33:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:33:26","slug":"giving-thanks-in-all-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/giving-thanks-in-all-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Thanks in All Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good trip home today as we got ahead of some pretty serious storms. \u00a0We were warned of them last night and decided that we would make our travel plans depending on the weather once we got up and going. \u00a0We were able to pull out of northeast MS about 10 min before 8:00 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>We give thanks for any remembrance of us and this ministry that you may exercise on our behalf. \u00a0Last night&#8217;s closing service was full and we saw 3 professions of faith. \u00a0We are so grateful to see God work this way.<\/p>\n<p>On our way home today, with Patty following me (remember she had her car because of a Yazoo trip earlier) she got a call from the swing bed\/phys therapy unit her dad is in telling her they may be discharging as early as next week. \u00a0This has floored us. \u00a0As of last week, we were told we should be planning on, at the earliest, the first of May but more than likely it would be the second week of May. \u00a0We aren&#8217;t ready, gang. \u00a0We are trying to arrange some remodeling of the house there in Yazoo City to help him better live by himself and this hasn&#8217;t gotten off the ground good yet, let alone ready for his return. \u00a0Please pray that we make the right decisions as we move forward. \u00a0Time is off the\u00a0essence but these decisions are not easy ones. \u00a0We are thankful that we have this opportunity and know that God is in control.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue our &#8220;at home&#8221; schedule this week. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be concentrating on the next couple of events and Patty will be handling her dad&#8217;s stuff from here and making decisions as we talk it all out.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the prayers!<br \/>\nBlessings,<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good trip home today as we got ahead of some pretty serious storms. \u00a0We were warned of them last night and decided that we would make our travel plans depending on the weather once we got up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/giving-thanks-in-all-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unconfined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}