{"id":387,"date":"2013-08-16T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T20:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2016-09-10T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T20:15:47","slug":"five-minute-friday-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/16\/five-minute-friday-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minute Friday: Small"},"content":{"rendered":"

How providential that the prompt for today’s FMF is\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SMALL<\/span><\/p>\n

Eleven years ago today, my life took another turn. \u00a0I became a grandmother for the first time. Months of waiting, anticipating culminated in this day. We are so blessed by family now with 7 g’kids and another on the way in a few weeks. They are all precious to me, but it’s when they are so small they can fit on a pillow on your lap that I get all mushy.<\/span><\/p>\n

You see, I’m a pediatric nurse by profession and tho retired I’m never far from that role. It’s the small ones, the defenseless, helpless, can’t do a thing for themselves babes that I gravitate to- every time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can’t help but wonder if that’s how God sees us- and if it’s not the driving reason, above the sin and straying issue that He sent his own Son as a babe- He loves the defenseless, helpless, can’t do a thing for ourselves state we are in and He hovers over us the same way I’ve hovered over countless babes, especially my own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So if you think that you are too small, insignificant, helpless, hopeless for Him to notice. Don’t. He sees you. He loves you. Even if it was just you!<\/span><\/p>\n

For God so loved the world that he gave his only son….<\/em><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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How providential that the prompt for today’s FMF is\u00a0 SMALL Eleven years ago today, my life took another turn. \u00a0I became a grandmother for the first time. Months of waiting, anticipating culminated in this day. We are so blessed by family now with 7 g’kids and another on the way in a few weeks. They … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[96,129,84,122,130],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-minute-fridays","tag-5minute-fridays","tag-children","tag-fmf","tag-gods-love","tag-helpless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}