{"id":3193,"date":"2019-06-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3193"},"modified":"2019-05-20T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T12:06:18","slug":"gods-lost-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/gods-lost-found\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Lost &#038; Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe title=\"God\" s=\"\" lost=\"\" &#038;=\"\" found=\"\" 6=\"\" 3=\"\" 19'=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/wqqd8-b1c487?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/wqqd8-b1c487?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" height=\"122\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>Everyone has lost something at one time or another<\/u>. <\/strong> There is even a website now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www:lostandfound.com\" target=\"_blank\">www:lostandfound.com<\/a> that acts as a global <em>\u2018lost and found&#8217; <\/em>box.  Users can report items missing and users can report items found.  <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">It is a good example of how technology can help people connect in a useful way. This is a gateway site for all of the physical things that can be retrieved and returned to their rightful owners.  <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">According to their statistics, about twice as many objects have been reported lost as have been reported found in the U.S.  So, the site&#8217;s users are losing things at twice the rate they are finding them. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Haven&#8217;t we all had the experience of losing things that we know deep down we will never recover? <\/strong><u>Depending on the situation, we can feel disappointed, heartbroken, hopeless, or simply discouraged by our own inability to keep up with things<\/u>.  <\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong>Isn&#8217;t it a wonderful relief to know that we will never fall into the \u2018Lost Forever&#8217; category?  Isn&#8217;t it reassuring to know that God will never give up on us?  Let us include a word of thanks in our prayers this week to acknowledge how grateful we are for that kind of gracious love that only God the Father can bestow on us. <\/strong><em><u>A God Tap<br \/><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\"><strong><em><u>Some of the greatest saints were once lost<\/u>\u2026.<u>and then were found<\/u>\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves.<br \/><u>We see failures<\/u>\u2026.<u>God sees foundations<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1558353892_featured-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"&nbsp;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}