{"id":236,"date":"2008-07-26T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=236"},"modified":"2008-07-26T15:37:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T20:37:43","slug":"the-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"The puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2008\/07\/ben_allison_21June2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nBen and Allison Woodings<br \/>\n21 June 2008<br \/>\n(We have four Mrs Woodingses now \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m putting together a giant life puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some of the various pieces:<\/p>\n<p>A clean, welcoming\u00c2\u00a0home<br \/>\nA loving, healthy family<br \/>\nFinancial security<br \/>\nWriting<br \/>\nFinding time to be with my husband<br \/>\nRun a marathon<\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the pieces; there are many <em>many<\/em> more pieces.\u00c2\u00a0 The edges of the puzzle are defined by time.\u00c2\u00a0 I feel if I can just figure it out &#8212; just somehow solve the puzzle &#8212; all the pieces will interlock with each other perfectly and the resulting picture would be me and the life I have chosen.<\/p>\n<p>But I have not solved the puzzle yet.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m still fitting this piece with that, moving this other piece over there, taking a sip of water, and then trying a different tactic.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m missing one crucial piece &#8212; the final piece with which all the other pieces will fall into place.<\/p>\n<p>I feel that final piece is confidence or diligence or focus or faith&#8230; something&#8230; something that finally breaks the code.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m missing the key to my puzzle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben and Allison Woodings 21 June 2008 (We have four Mrs Woodingses now \ud83d\ude09 ) Sometimes I feel like I&#8217;m putting together a giant life puzzle.\u00c2\u00a0 Here are some of the various pieces: A clean, welcoming\u00c2\u00a0home A loving, healthy family Financial security Writing Finding time to be with my husband Run a marathon These are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}