{"id":5845,"date":"2024-08-30T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T09:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:22:17","slug":"a-season-of-laughter-is-beckoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2024\/08\/30\/a-season-of-laughter-is-beckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"A SEASON OF LAUGHTER IS BECKONING."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gen 21:2,3 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had  spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him &#8211; whom Sarah bore to him &#8211; Isaac<\/p>\n<p>Laughter is a response to God&#8217;s tremendous love and grace that He showers on us. Life presents us with good times and bad, challenges and victories. There is a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac&#8217;s name means laughter. When God told Abraham that He will bless Sarah and give her a son of her own, Abraham fell upon his face and laughed ( Gen 17:17). Likewise ,when Sarah heard the angel telling Abraham that at the set time she will conceive , she laughed ( Gen 18:12). Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son. And Abraham named his son Isaac &#8211; &#8221; translated , it means laughter.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise at the set time, God will put a smile on you . When God visit&#8217;s you, laughter  will  be evidence. Every one will know that the almighty has visited you. No matter the situation at hand, a season of laughter  is beckoning.<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nIsa1:1-7<br \/>\nJdg 15:9-20<br \/>\nLuk 1:36-45<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4fBlessed weekend \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen 21:2,3 For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him &#8211; whom Sarah bore to him &#8211; Isaac Laughter is a response to God&#8217;s tremendous love and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5847,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}