{"id":4167,"date":"2022-08-05T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/2022\/08\/05\/pause\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T08:56:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T13:56:26","slug":"pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/05\/pause\/","title":{"rendered":"Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pause in His presence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/wp-content\/pexels-photo-5496591-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pexels-photo-5496591-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pexels-photo-5496591-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pexels-photo-5496591-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pexels-photo-5496591-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pexels-photo-5496591.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These words really impacted me this morning as I&#8217;m reading Psalm 44, right between v8 and v9 in The Passion Translation, &#8220;Pause in His Presence&#8221;, and I did!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time stopped for a few minutes. I just stared and the words and took the time to pause and really feel His presence. It&#8217;s quiet here in the basement as I sip coffee and read devotions and scripture. Always a special time of the day and sometimes an extra special moment with God.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His is always present but sometimes I  really just need to pause to make it more of a reality in my life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pause in His presence. These words really impacted me this morning as I&#8217;m reading Psalm 44, right between v8 and v9 in The Passion Translation, &#8220;Pause in His Presence&#8221;, and I did! Time stopped for a few minutes. I just stared and the words and took the time to pause and really feel His presence. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[158,299,298],"class_list":["post-4167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith","category-grab-bag","tag-god","tag-meditation","tag-pause"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pexels-photo-5496591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4170,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}