{"id":118,"date":"2020-11-12T01:31:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/?p=118"},"modified":"2020-11-12T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T01:31:58","slug":"a-higher-power-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"A Higher Power at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My children and I are enjoying listening to <em>Where the Red Fern Grows<\/em> together. After the boy gets his puppies, he reflects on God&#8217;s providence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Still mumbling names over and over, I glanced up. There, carved in the white bark of a sycamore tree, was a large heart. In the center of the heart were two names, \u201cDan\u201d and \u201cAnn.\u201d The name Dan was a little larger than Ann. It was wide and bold. The scar stood out more. The name Ann was small, neat, and even. I stared unbelieving\u2014for there were my names. They were perfect.<\/p><p>I walked over and picked up my pups. Looking at him, I said, \u201cYour name is Dan. I\u2019ll call you Old Dan.\u201d Looking at her, I said, \u201cYour name, little girl, is Ann. I\u2019ll call you Little Ann.\u201d<\/p><p>It was then I realized it was all too perfect. Here in this fishermen\u2019s camp, I had found the magazine and the ad. I looked over at the old sycamore log. There I had asked God to help me get two hound pups. There were the pups, rolling and playing in the warm sand. I thought of the old K. C. Baking Powder can, and the fishermen. How freely they had given their nickels and dimes.<\/p><p>I looked up again to the names carved in the tree. Yes, it was all there like a large puzzle. Piece by piece, each fit perfectly until the puzzle was complete. It could not have happened without the help of an unseen power.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My children and I are enjoying listening to Where the Red Fern Grows together. After the boy gets his puppies, he reflects on God&#8217;s providence: Still mumbling names over and over, I glanced up. There, carved in the white bark of a sycamore tree, was a large heart. In the center of the heart were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/?p=118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Higher Power at Work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[24,25],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devotions","tag-literature","tag-providence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thegospel.rocks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/yannes-kiefer-Fiq9UtgJDLU-unsplash-1.jpg?fit=640%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegospel.rocks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}