{"id":616,"date":"2009-08-07T23:04:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T03:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-08-07T23:04:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T03:04:51","slug":"answered-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/616","title":{"rendered":"Answered prayer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2603\/3798189231_69519d43d7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last day of our Power Up Club was fantastic!\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog for the last few days, you&#8217;ve seen how our weather has been less than dry lately.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyday, it&#8217;s been blue skies until JUST before it&#8217;s time for our club and the rains come.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully, we have the back porch and it&#8217;s worked perfectly for those days when we&#8217;ve needed it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3480\/3798189397_788b283b0a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbey douses her brother during a game of &#8220;drip drop&#8217; (think duck, duck, goose with a pail of water).<\/p>\n<p>But, Thursday is always &#8220;Tidal Wave Thursday&#8221;, meaning WATER games.\u00c2\u00a0 Kids come in their swim suits and get seriously wet.\u00c2\u00a0 I SO wanted the kids to be able to have this day, without having to improvise on the back porch.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I prayed.\u00c2\u00a0 I gave the outcome totally to God, like I&#8217;d done each day.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;d use it as He saw fit, and if that meant rain then I&#8217;d take it.\u00c2\u00a0 But, I asked\u00c2\u00a0God to give the kids their water day.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3592\/3798189473_27ae735302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the club drew nearer, the clouds started rolling in and it looked a little dark behind us.\u00c2\u00a0 But amazingly, as the kids played, the clouds just rolled by without a drop of rain.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3508\/3799006248_b1d817d92a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No rain!\u00c2\u00a0 And, the kids had a blast.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"null\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3435\/3799006312_eb24532a20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbey the interviewer (picture a microphone in\u00c2\u00a0her hand&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Wanna know the interesting part?\u00c2\u00a0 About 5 minutes AFTER all the kids\u00c2\u00a0left,\u00c2\u00a0it started raining :)\u00c2\u00a0 Thank you, God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last day of our Power Up Club was fantastic!\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve been reading my blog for the last few days, you&#8217;ve seen how our weather has been less than dry lately.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyday, it&#8217;s been blue skies until JUST before it&#8217;s time for our club and the rains come.\u00c2\u00a0 Thankfully, we have the back porch and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}