{"id":2180,"date":"2020-11-25T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T17:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamahappygirl.com\/wp\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2021-02-05T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T04:05:18","slug":"thank-you-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamahappygirl.com\/wp\/2020\/11\/25\/thank-you-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes the pain is so deep there are no words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Silence is all you have<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is personal and your own<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the choice is yours<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will you stay in the pain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will you cut through?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who will pick up the weapon first?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who will move the hand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After you get through this trial,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who will help you next time?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is what life is all about. Getting through the pain. If we can get through the pain, we can find happiness. If it was always happy and easy, we wouldn\u2019t appreciate the good times or even the cut through the hard times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am grateful for people, angels, Jesus Christ, God, and the Holy Ghost who pick up the weapon and move the hand to cut through my pain so I can feel hope, happiness, and joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Thank you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carol<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/iamahappygirl.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tex-and-fiddle-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamahappygirl.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tex-and-fiddle-2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/iamahappygirl.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tex-and-fiddle-2-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 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Silence is all you have It is personal and your own And the choice is yours Will you stay in the pain? Will you cut through?&nbsp; Who will pick up the weapon first?&nbsp; Who will move the hand? After you get through this trial, Who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iamahappygirl.com\/wp\/2020\/11\/25\/thank-you-pain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thank You, Pain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pbg_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"pbg_author_info":{"display_name":"Carol Sevy","author_link":"https:\/\/iamahappygirl.com\/wp\/author\/ccsevy\/","author_img":false},"pbg_comment_info":" No Comments","pbg_excerpt":"Sometimes the pain is so deep there are no words. 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