{"id":5293,"date":"2011-09-13T09:36:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2011-09-13T09:45:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:45:30","slug":"a-thank-you-to-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?p=5293","title":{"rendered":"A THANK YOU TO MOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i just found this note i wrote for mom last year, i read it to her, when i gave it to her, because she was not able to read. my mom really was a true disciple and left a legacy of faith to her future generations&#8230; one of her last days i thanked her for this again, i said &#8220;mom thank you for everything you did for us&#8221; and her reply was &#8220;i didn&#8217;t do enough&#8221;, i assured her she did&#8230;.. i know where she was coming from with that comment, she was referring to the things of this world, i assured her, that wasn&#8217;t what i wanted, she gave me what i wanted and needed and nothing more&#8230;we enjoyed bible study together, and she said to me&#8230;.you have wisdom! that coming from a mom who was so full of wisdom, meant a lot to me:)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5296\" href=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/?attachment_id=5296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5296\" title=\"IMAG0176\" src=\"http:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMAG0176.jpg\" alt=\"IMAG0176\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>here is my love letter to my mom<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>thank you mom,<br \/>\nfor giving me life! for teaching me how to laugh, and teaching me that there is no shame in tears.<br \/>\nthank you for teaching me&#8230; that to live in this world really does  require faith, a faith that you have passed on to me, that we can pass  on to the next generations.<br \/>\nI love that you always made life for us an adventure and i will so miss your laugh!<br \/>\nwhen i think of you, i think of your hands always folded. i love that i got to share in bible study with you these past years.<br \/>\nmom, i love you for who you are, and who you have made me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nlove-in-Christ<br \/>\nverna<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i am so blessed to have spent so much time with her and to be able to say the things, things that you always wished you had said&#8230; i did, i felt God gave us this past year for a reason&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>i am going to miss her real bad<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i just found this note i wrote for mom last year, i read it to her, when i gave it to her, because she was not able to read. my mom really was a true disciple and left a legacy of faith to her future generations&#8230; one of her last days i thanked her for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5305,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mom.vandercar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}