{"id":6251,"date":"2015-01-12T05:41:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T05:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2015-01-12T05:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T05:41:32","slug":"worry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/worry\/","title":{"rendered":"worry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the middle of staving off a mild panic attack, so this will be short.<\/p>\n<p>We had a really wonderful dinner with a fascinating, kind, lovely family tonight. They have eight kids \u00a0(all 100% bilingual in different languages), have lived all over the world, and are terrific conversationalists. \u00a0In fact, they were so good at making us feel comfortable that I am panicking because I think I shared too much. If I didn&#8217;t have social anxiety, maybe I wouldn&#8217;t worry, but since I do, I am feeling pretty vulnerable and anxiety ridden right now.<\/p>\n<p>Abe is about to give me a blessing because on top of that, school starts tomorrow and I am practically sick with worry.<\/p>\n<p>To force myself out of my own worry for a moment: Abe is a gospel doctrine teacher now, and today he taught such a beautiful lesson about the annunciation to Mary and also the annunciation to Zacharias. He \u00a0helped me think about belief as a virtue, to believe God is the same throughout the ages, and to believe that miracles can happen today. That was the <em>extremely<\/em> distilled takeaway from a discussion rich with faith-promoting possibility.<\/p>\n<p>On that note, here are today&#8217;s pictures:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0802.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6255\" alt=\"IMG_0802\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0802-e1421040484429-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6256\" alt=\"IMG_0805\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0805-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6252\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0808.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6252\" alt=\"Lydia has played HOURS of imagination with these cats.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0808-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia has played HOURS of imagination with these cats.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6253\" alt=\"IMG_0810\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0810-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0813.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6254\" alt=\"IMG_0813\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0813-e1421040470415-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in the middle of staving off a mild panic attack, so this will be short. We had a really wonderful dinner with a fascinating, kind, lovely family tonight. They have eight kids \u00a0(all 100% bilingual in different languages), have lived all over the world, and are terrific conversationalists. \u00a0In fact, they were so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/12\/worry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">worry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}