{"id":3030,"date":"2017-04-12T00:18:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T04:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2017-03-26T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T13:29:33","slug":"calm-and-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/calm-and-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Calm And Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1475900479l\/32497642.jpg\" alt=\"32497642\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Calm-Bright-Christian-Christmas-Huckleberry-ebook\/dp\/B01LZP3WT5\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490534331&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=calm+and+bright+autumn+macarthur\">Calm And Bright<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/faithhopeandheartwarming.com\/\">Autumn Macarthur<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever had a workaholic spouse?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maddie Hughes is highly upset with her husband, Brad. Recently divorced, she&#8217;s never been able to forgive her ex for upsetting her &#8220;perfect&#8221; life. She&#8217;s left her home and followed him to the city. She was unhappy with her new environment &#8211; unhappy and alone. A new mom, she felt Brad had failed her since he spent ALL of his time at work. Now he wants to reunite this Christmas. Is there hope for them?<\/p>\n<p>Brad only worked long hours so that he could provide a nice life for his family. Why can&#8217;t Maddie understand that? His father has convinced Brad that making lots of money, moving up the corporate ladder, is what he needs to do to be successful in life.<\/p>\n<p>But, why can&#8217;t he have both, a successful career and his family, too?<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed this story. I thought it was highly realistic. It&#8217;s a nice, sweet Christmas story.<\/p>\n<p><b>Have you ever been upset with your spouse, because he was a workaholic?\u00a0D<\/b><strong>id you divorce or were you able to work out your differences? Did you pray for guidance?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calm And Bright by Autumn Macarthur Have you ever had a workaholic spouse? Maddie Hughes is highly upset with her husband, Brad. Recently divorced, she&#8217;s never been able to forgive her ex for upsetting her &#8220;perfect&#8221; life. She&#8217;s left her home and followed him to the city. She was unhappy with her new environment &#8211; [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-MS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}