{"id":7216,"date":"2015-05-14T04:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T04:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2015-05-14T04:23:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T04:23:32","slug":"heaven-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/14\/heaven-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went swimming, and that helped my back (and whole body, actually) feel better. I think I am going to swim more. Abe and I also got to go to the temple tonight, and that helped us both feel more spiritually calibrated. Last Friday when we were on Abe&#8217;s work retreat, all of the wives sat around talking about God for hours, and I was so impressed with their spiritual abilities. I was particularly impressed by their capacity to receive and act on frequent revelation; hearing their stories and feeling their spirits and testimony made me want to open myself more to daily revelation. The temple tonight felt like a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>I also felt spiritually motivated by the book I read today. I read Stephanie Nielson&#8217;s memoir,\u00a0<em>Heaven is Here<\/em>. I bawled through much of it, and after I finished I spent the rest of the day thinking about how I should be a better, more grateful person in general. She is just such an inspiring person. I actually saw her in IKEA a couple months ago, and she probably thought I was one of those rude people who stare at her scarred face, but really I just recognized her because of her blog, and I felt slightly star struck.<\/p>\n<p>I took some pictures of the girls on a short neighborhood walk we did today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0385-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7217\" alt=\"IMG_0385 (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0385-1-e1431577221358-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7218\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0387-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7218\" alt=\"I tried to get an action shot of holding hands with Mary. I just love it when she runs up to me and sticks her little hand in mine. \" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0387-1-e1431577237160-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I tried to get an action shot of holding hands with Mary. I just love it when she runs up to me and sticks her little hand in mine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7219\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0388.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7219\" alt=\"Lydia sang the Mulan &quot;Ancestors&quot; song the whole walk, and at the end, Mary thought it expedient to sing her own favorite song to herself: Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree. Here she is singing to herself as she walks home.\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0388-e1431577247643-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lydia sang the Mulan &#8220;Ancestors&#8221; song the whole walk, and at the end, Mary thought it expedient to sing her own favorite song to herself: Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree. Here she is singing to herself as she walks home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went swimming, and that helped my back (and whole body, actually) feel better. I think I am going to swim more. Abe and I also got to go to the temple tonight, and that helped us both feel more spiritually calibrated. Last Friday when we were on Abe&#8217;s work retreat, all of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/14\/heaven-is-here\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heaven is Here<\/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-7216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216","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=7216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}