{"id":544,"date":"2009-03-29T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2009-03-29T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T23:55:00","slug":"my-dad-was-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"My Dad Was Here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SdIbJortvVI\/AAAAAAAABhA\/Tg5kux5rQfI\/s1600-h\/DSC_0133.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SdIbJortvVI\/AAAAAAAABhA\/Tg5kux5rQfI\/s400\/DSC_0133.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319343962231520594\" \/><\/a><br \/>On Friday my dad came for a visit. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, my dad&#8230;  He came and spent the day here.<\/p>\n<p>I gave the boys the choice to have lunch with him or not..  We went to our usual spot, East Side Marios.<br \/>We then came to my house and hung out for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>It was all good.  No expectations resulted in me being good with everything.<\/p>\n<p>I have wondered why God bought my dad back from the dead literally.<br \/>Have wondered why God just didn&#8217;t take him.  He was almost there.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because of all this.  Maybe I will never have a Daddy here&#8230; but I have found peace and acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe my dad isn&#8217;t going to change but maybe God is giving me a chance to change.<br \/>I have had help (through coaching etc) to come to terms with the fact that I will never have a Daddy.<br \/>I have had help (through God&#8217;s grace) to come to terms that only I suffer from the rage and anger.<br \/>I have had help (through others God has placed in my life) to realize that I must love the ones that are with me&#8230; not the ones I wish were with me.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8230; it was good,  It was what it was.  I said &#8220;call me when you are in town again, Dad.&#8221;<br \/>God is good.  God is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am so thankful for this time to be a better me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday my dad came for a visit. Yes, my dad&#8230; He came and spent the day here. I gave the boys the choice to have lunch with him or not.. We went to our usual spot, East Side Marios.We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}