{"id":32289,"date":"2013-07-31T18:31:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T23:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=32289"},"modified":"2013-08-02T00:39:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T05:39:47","slug":"beauty-in-unexpected-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/beauty-in-unexpected-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty in Unexpected Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_01561.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_0156\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/IMG_0156_thumb1.jpg\" width=\"880\" height=\"594\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you go off the beaten path (by taking a leap of faith or by what you have been dealt in life), you will find beauty in surprising places if you are looking!&#160; Noelle found this beautiful miracle in a field of weeds while we were on vacation earlier this month.&#160; I would\u2019ve never seen such an incredible creation, because I wasn\u2019t wandering in the weeds, or even looking for beauty in such a broken, lifeless place.&#160; May we all learn to look for beauty in our unexpected places\u2026 even if the places we end up finding ourselves in are downright broken and difficult beyond measure!<\/p>\n<p>New blog coming on the sidebar soon about my decade-old journey with fibromyalgia.&#160; I\u2019d like to continue to keep pondfam.com as my happy place, and my daughters\u2019 online scrapbook, but I\u2019m taking this leap of faith to start a new blog to open up a part of me that has been hidden for so long, in the hope that it will encourage those who suffer with their \u201csomething,\u201d be it fibromyalgia, another ailment, or something entirely different; because everyone has something.&#160; I\u2019m planning to share lots of funny things that make me laugh, because we all know that laughter is such great medicine; I\u2019m going to share my struggles, my hopes, my dreams, my heart-aches, and lots about the people and faith I have in God that keep me falling forward, when I cannot walk forward.&#160; I hope you will be encouraged and realize that you are not alone in battling your something!&#160; We\u2019ll see what happens!&#160; I\u2019m nervous and excited!<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Palatino Linotype\"><\/font><font size=\"4\"><em>Melissa <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you go off the beaten path (by taking a leap of faith or by what you have been dealt in life), you will find beauty in surprising places if you are looking!&#160; Noelle found this beautiful miracle in a field of weeds while we were on vacation earlier this month.&#160; I would\u2019ve never seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32297,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32289\/revisions\/32297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}