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I’ve been on a journey for some time now to try to be thankful, thankful all the time, and for every circumstance! \u00a0Some days nothing special happens but I’m still thankful, sometimes something extremely important happens and I’m very thankful!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thursday afternoon I needed to drive over to our Lowe’s to get a gallon of deck stain for a project we’re doing at home. \u00a0Leaving our subdivision you come to a traffic light<\/span> where I go straight through to our local bank, which I needed to do before heading on to Lowe’s. \u00a0You cross the major highway and the traffic is heavy and often moving pretty fast. \u00a0At the red traffic light there was a car on the other side of the light signaling a left turn. \u00a0I’ve learned that often those people needing to turn left, even though they do not have the right of way, \u00a0still shoot out in a hurry and turn left, not waiting for the straight traffic to come through the light. \u00a0The light turned green for us, I paused to see what they were gong to do, they paused to see what I was going to do, realizing they were going to observe the law I started to slowly pull forward into the road when a big Lincoln flew through the red-light at about 60 mph. \u00a0 If I had pulled out as soon as the light tuned green they would have t-boned my car. probably right into my driver side door. and I wouldn’t be here to right this blog entry. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Someday my number will be up, either my heart will fail, or someone will hit my car or I’ll find out that I have terminal illness, but Thursday was not that day. \u00a0I’m thankful, but I’m not worried about that future day. \u00a0I know that my life is in God’s hands and it will be the moment I leave this body! \u00a0None of us know when that moment will happen, hopefully that time is far away, but we can’t be sure of that! \u00a0I only shared this as a reminder that I hope you are good with he Lord, that you’ve trusted him with your life and you can feel the same assurance that I do!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is a hot, muggy weekend in Corbin, but I’m still here, for now, and I’m thankful!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been on a journey for some time now to try to be thankful, thankful all the time, and for every circumstance! \u00a0Some days nothing special happens but I’m still thankful, sometimes something extremely important happens and I’m very thankful! Thursday afternoon I needed to drive over to our Lowe’s to get a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28051,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28049\/revisions\/28051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}