{"id":3469,"date":"2019-08-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2019-07-14T17:01:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:01:22","slug":"what-we-dont-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/what-we-dont-control\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Don\u2019t Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-html-block\"><iframe title=\"What We Don\" t=\"\" control=\"\" 8=\"\" 26=\"\" 19'=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/3nrbe-b7c097?from=yiiadmin&amp;download=1&amp;version=1\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/3nrbe-b7c097?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 dir=\"auto\"><strong><u>When we wait, we admit there are some things that are not under our control<\/u>. <u>Most of us like to believe that we are in control<\/u>. <u>We imagine that we are masters of our destinies<\/u>. <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If we work hard enough, if we are sufficiently prepared, if we just concentrate, we can make life work. And we can. To a point. <br \/><\/em><br \/><u>There are some things, however, that can&#8217;t be hurried<\/u>.<strong><em> Recuperation from surgery, the grief process, a young person learning responsibility.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Shakespeare put it like this<\/u>,<em> &#8220;How poor are they that have no patience. What wound did ever heal but by degrees?&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p>John R. Claypool has wisely said, <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s face it, there are two kinds of reality in this world of ours. There are <\/em><strong><u>the things you have to work for<\/u><\/strong><em>, and there are <\/em><strong><em>the things you have to wait for.<\/em><\/strong><em>&#8221; But we don&#8217;t want to wait.    <u>A God Tap<\/u><\/em><u><br \/><\/u><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to King Duncan<br \/><\/em><br \/><strong><em>Never give up on something you really want\u2026\u2026<br \/>It is difficult to WAIT, but more difficult to REGRET.<br \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3468,"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\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",150,150,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_featured.png",100,100,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1563138015_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\/3469"}],"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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}