{"id":2398,"date":"2019-05-12T16:09:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2019-05-12T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T03:04:00","slug":"on-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"On Thriving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2281\" \/><\/a>I want to be sappy. No, not that way.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 92:14 says those who walk with God can \u201cstill yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green.\u201d  That\u2019s the New American Standard version. The Message translation says \u201cThey\u2019ll grow tall in the presence of God, lithe and green, virile still in old age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Living Bible says \u201ceven in old age they will still produce fruit and be vital and green.\u201d And the Amplified version is the best: \u201cThey will still thrive and bear fruit and prosper in old age.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Thriving\u2014I like that.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is, as I grow older, I don\u2019t want to settle.<\/p>\n<p>You know, settle with a body that can no longer climb or bike. Settle with a mind that no longer learns new things. Settle with an income where we barely get by. Settle with a life that fails to touch others the way it once did. Most importantly, I don\u2019t want to settle with a spirit that no longer cares, that no longer dreams and strives.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I want to be sappy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to be sappy. No, not that way. Psalm 92:14 says those who walk with God can \u201cstill yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green.\u201d That\u2019s the New American Standard version. The Message translation says \u201cThey\u2019ll grow tall in the presence of God, lithe and green, virile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2403,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}