{"id":3041,"date":"2017-04-19T00:13:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T04:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2017-03-31T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:35:25","slug":"heavenly-peace-by-lesley-ann-mcdaniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/heavenly-peace-by-lesley-ann-mcdaniel\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Peace by Lesley Ann McDaniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1475946208l\/32500786.jpg\" alt=\"32500786\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heavenly-Peace-Holiday-Hearts-Book-ebook\/dp\/B01LZ1OBHH\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1490960002&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Heavenly+Peace\">Heavenly Peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever chose a gift tag from a Christmas tree for a needy child? What did that child request as a gift?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When widowed Valerie and her son Ethan visit a coffee shop, they choose a gift tag for a child in need. Ethan is excited, and he spots a man removing the gifts from the tree. &#8220;Is that man the Grinch?&#8221; Ethan asks his mommy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jake is not the Grinch, he&#8217;s a man who works with disadvantaged folks, collecting gift donations from under the tree to distribute to needy children.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie is attracted to handsome Jake, but, although her husband is deceased, shouldn&#8217;t she remain faithful to him forever, never to marry?<\/p>\n<p>Jake is smitten with Valerie, but, she&#8217;s wearing a wedding ring &#8211; so, she&#8217;s married, isn&#8217;t she?<\/p>\n<p>Valerie is shocked when she finally reads the tag she&#8217;s removed from the tree. This child has requested a miracle, she doesn&#8217;t know how she can give this child her requested gift. Can Jake help her to fulfill the wish for this needy child?<\/p>\n<p>This was a sweet, heartwarming short Christmas story. It was a good, light read.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, have you ever chose a gift tag for a needy child? If so, what did that child request as a gift?<\/strong><\/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>Heavenly Peace Have you ever chose a gift tag from a Christmas tree for a needy child? What did that child request as a gift? When widowed Valerie and her son Ethan visit a coffee shop, they choose a gift tag for a child in need. Ethan is excited, and he spots a man removing [&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":[94,1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-fiction","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-N3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}