{"id":49,"date":"2012-01-13T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/safeplacewithruthgraham\/?p=49"},"modified":"2012-01-13T20:00:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T20:00:22","slug":"hows-it-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/safeplacewithruthgraham\/2012\/01\/hows-it-going.html","title":{"rendered":"How’s it going?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been off line for several days. It’s sort of nice to have to do things the “old fashioned” way. It’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t have the Internet and e-mail.<\/p>\n

Last time we talked about making resolutions. How’s it going? Have you been able to keep them? Have some fallen by the wayside? Have you shrugged them off?<\/p>\n

Let’s be transparent here! I will tell you that I made several resolutions: to exercise at the health and fitness center; to have my devotional time first thing, not watch the weather and news.<\/p>\n

Well, I have had a bad sinus infection which has drained me of all energy and made me feel quite yucky. So I have given myself a pass on exercise – although I do some stretching in the morning. We have had such variable weather that I gave myself permission to check it out when I go to the kitchen to get my tea. Then I go back to my chair to have devotions.<\/p>\n

I don’t feel like I have failed – just delayed things.<\/p>\n

How are you doing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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