{"id":8474,"date":"2013-06-21T02:28:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2013-06-21T02:30:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T02:30:28","slug":"the-forest-for-the-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/?p=8474","title":{"rendered":"The forest for the trees…….."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just came from one of the most beautiful old growth forests in the world. \u00a0I photographed it, I tried to find a way to contain it within the frame, but I forgot one important thing. \u00a0A forest is made of trees, individual trees, there is no forest without each individual tree. \u00a0God spoke loudly to me about my life, how every single blessing is like one of those trees, and all those trees are the sum of His love for me. \u00a0Let me name some of my trees; \u00a0A loving, beautiful, devoted wife, three fantastic children that married three great people and brought them into our family. \u00a0How about my six wonderful grandchildren, a wonderful brother and his wife. \u00a0Sherelene’s sisters and brother and all their families. \u00a0 How about Jim Begley, Bill Pekala, Don Nelson,Nick Coury, Ricky Skaggs, Charles Stanley, and I’m going to stop there because this is a list that would go on and on and on. Not bragging \u00a0just truly blessed. \u00a0How about 11 great years with a wonderful team at Nikon. \u00a0Look I could go on and on, but this truly isn’t about me, it’s about Him.<\/p>\n

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He loves you and I so much that He gave up His most valuable possession, His Son. \u00a0When you look at your life, don’t forget to take time to enjoy, admire, and appreciate all His has done for you, and just in case you haven’t noticed, it was everything!!!!<\/p>\n

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Blessings,<\/p>\n

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the pilgrim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  I just came from one of the most beautiful old growth forests in the world. \u00a0I photographed it, I tried to find a way to contain it within the frame, but I forgot one important thing. \u00a0A forest is made of trees, individual trees, there is no forest without each individual tree. \u00a0God spoke […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474","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=8474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8479,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8474\/revisions\/8479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}