{"id":3172,"date":"2020-02-25T04:11:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2020-02-25T04:11:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:11:01","slug":"how-to-get-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Peace!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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If only we could have instant peace in times of trouble! Instead, our stomach muscles tighten, and our blood pressure goes up. We get a panicky feeling and our mind reels as we wonder what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When the initial shock has worn off, then our mind starts to go around in circles. Peace seems further away than ever. But there is one way to settle one\u2019s mind, and that is to concentrate on the blessings we still have. It could always have been worse, and we are not the only ones to suffer. If we count our blessings and concentrate on\u00a0 what we have rather than on what we don\u2019t have makes all the difference. To be able to thank God that things are no worse lifts our spirits out of ourselves and we reach a higher plane than just feeling sorry for ourselves!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   One lady in our\ngroup said the other day that she is making it a habit to always think of ten\nblessings that are waiting for her each  new day. The first one she said was to thank\nGod for the blessing of being able to hear. To wake up each morning and be able\nto hear the birds chirping was one of the first blessings she thought of every\nmorning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This really\nchallenged me as I thought of how we had been complaining about the\ninterminable cooing of the doves around our house. We thought it was such a\nmonotonous sound, always the same tones with no variation at all. But what if\nwe couldn\u2019t hear them at all? That WOULD be a matter of concern! So I started\nto listen with a fresh vision of thankfulness rather than one of complaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   There are so many\nother things that we can be thankful for too\u2026.so let\u2019s cultivate the habit of\nthankfulness, rather than one of complaints!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If only we could have instant peace in times of trouble! Instead, our stomach muscles tighten, and our blood pressure goes up. We get a panicky feeling and our mind reels as we wonder what to do. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When the initial shock has worn off, then our mind starts to go around in circles. Peace … Continue reading How to Get Peace!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[508],"tags":[186,132,555],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-lessons","tag-blessings","tag-peace","tag-thankfulness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Tui-2.jpg?fit=1212%2C826&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-Pa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3174,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}