{"id":11864,"date":"2024-01-27T06:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=11864"},"modified":"2024-01-21T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T14:41:03","slug":"bitter-to-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=11864","title":{"rendered":"Bitter to Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191011_104038-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191011_104038-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6810\" style=\"width:643px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191011_104038-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191011_104038-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191011_104038-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191011_104038-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/20191011_104038-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  After today, we are going to be with the chickens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  Yep, after all that work, I agree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from A Treasury of Contentment by Ralph L. Woods<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In making bright and fruitful all the barren spots of earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In facing odds and mastering them and rising from defeat,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And making true what once was false, and what was bitter, sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For only he knows perfectly joy whose little bit of soil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is richer ground than what it was when he began to toil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Psalm 63:1  Because your loving kindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You. (NKJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me: After today, we are going to be with the chickens. Prodigal: Yep, after all that work, I agree! This is from A Treasury of Contentment by Ralph L. Woods The joy of life is living it and doing things of worth, In making bright and fruitful all the barren spots of earth. 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