{"id":358,"date":"2014-03-26T05:48:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/?p=358"},"modified":"2014-03-25T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:20:27","slug":"seeing-burdens-as-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/2014\/03\/26\/seeing-burdens-as-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Burdens as Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Seeing<\/a><\/p>\n

In a season in which I am busy\u2014and tired<\/a>\u2014it is easy to look at my life and see burdens. It is easy to feel annoyed by things that cost me in time and energy. This Lent, I am trying to see things from a different perspective.<\/p>\n

That pile of laundry that is sitting wrinkled and wet in the washer? It\u2019s not a burden. I have clothes. I have a washing machine. That is a pile of blessings.<\/p>\n

The messes my young daughter makes as she eats? Those aren\u2019t burdens. I have a daughter. She is learning how to eat and swallow and feed herself. Those abilities are blessings.<\/p>\n

The water pump that broke in my car last week and cost a wad of cash to fix? It\u2019s not a burden. I have a car to drive. We had the money in savings to pay for a new pump. That car is a blessing.<\/p>\n

The hours of work I will spend grading papers in any given week, rounding my shoulders over stacks of essays? That\u2019s not a burden. I have a job. I get to think about words and give feedback to students who love to write. That work is a blessing.<\/p>\n

The nights that my husband is at work and doesn\u2019t make it home until Ella and I are both asleep? Those nights aren\u2019t a burden. I have a husband. He spends his nights loving and serving the people in our church. I get to be his partner in ministry. That is a blessing.<\/p>\n

During this season of Lent, I want new eyes to see my life for what it really is\u2014a blessing. A gift. I woke up today with air flowing through me like a river. I am\u00a0living<\/em>. What do I have that I have not been given (1 Cor. 4:7)?<\/p>\n

Lord, help me to live my life with a heart that sees blessings rather than burdens.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Are you like me? Where do you need new eyes to see the burdens in your life as blessings?<\/em><\/p>\n

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In a season in which I am busy\u2014and tired\u2014it is easy to look at my life and see burdens. It is easy to feel annoyed by things that cost me in time and energy. This Lent, I am trying to see things from a different perspective. That pile of laundry that is sitting wrinkled and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-ministry","category-truth-telling","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annswindell.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}