{"id":1370,"date":"2009-04-17T00:29:11","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2009-04-17T00:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:29:11","slug":"story-of-the-day-160409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/story\/story-of-the-day-160409\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of The Day- 16\/04\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One day, one friend asked another,<br \/>\n&#8216;How is it that you are always so happy?<br \/>\nYou have so much energy,<br \/>\nand you never seem to get down.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>With her eyes smiling, she said,<br \/>\n&#8216;I know the Secret!&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8216;What secret is that?&#8217;<br \/>\nTo which she replied,<br \/>\n&#8216;I&#8217;ll tell you all about it,<br \/>\nbut you have to promise to<br \/>\nshare the Secret with others.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Secret is this:<br \/>\nI have learned there is little I can do<br \/>\nin my life that will make me truly happy.<br \/>\nI must depend on God to make<br \/>\nme happy and to meet my needs.<br \/>\nWhen a need arises in my life,<br \/>\nI have to trust God to supply<br \/>\naccording to HIS riches.<br \/>\nI have learned most of the time<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t need half of what I think I do.<br \/>\nHe has never let me down.<br \/>\nSince I learned that &#8216;Secret&#8217;, I am happy.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The questioner&#8217;s first thought was,<br \/>\n&#8216;That&#8217;s too simple!&#8217;<br \/>\nBut upon reflecting over her own life<br \/>\nshe recalled how she thought a bigger house<br \/>\nwould make her happy, but it didn&#8217;t!<br \/>\nShe thought a better paying job<br \/>\nwould make her happy, but it hadn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nWhen did she realize her greatest happiness?<br \/>\nSitting on the floor with her grandchildren,<br \/>\nplaying games, eating pizza or reading a story,<br \/>\na simple gift from God.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know it too!<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t depend on people to make us happy.<br \/>\nOnly GOD in His infinite wisdom can do that.<br \/>\nTrust HIM!<br \/>\nAnd now I pass the Secret on to you!<br \/>\nSo once you get it, what will you do?<\/p>\n<p>YOU have to tell someone the Secret, too!<br \/>\nThat GOD in His wisdom will take care of YOU!<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s not really a secret&#8230;<br \/>\nWe just have to believe it and do it&#8230;<br \/>\nReally trust God! <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, one friend asked another, &#8216;How is it that you are always so happy? You have so much energy, and you never seem to get down.&#8217; With her eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90],"tags":[15,580,106,177,135,588,91],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story","tag-christianism","tag-christianity","tag-god","tag-gods-love","tag-gods-will","tag-jesus","tag-story-of-the-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lebanesesaints.com\/Home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}