{"id":1638,"date":"2025-05-29T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2025-05-29T09:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T15:20:16","slug":"secretarys-corner-27-may-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/secretarys-corner-27-may-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary&#8217;s Corner 27 &#8211; May 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Once again, I have big tests coming up. Often in my head, I target the next time in life I\u2019m looking forward to, or tell myself how far away I am from an experience, whether is be good or bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I find this wastes a lot of my in-the-moment living. I spent so much time wishing life away or dreading what comes next that I miss the time I have <em>now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were discussing this with the youth girls at Bible study, and I suppose it is a pretty universal experience. To \u201clive in the moment\u201d is a very clich\u00e9 thing to say, but the reason it is clich\u00e9 is because there is some truth to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My prayer for us, all of us, this week, is that we would focus on the small things and not the overwhelming crash of summer or the busy season inevitably coming; I pray we can focus on the little things God is doing in our everyday lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I have big tests coming up. Often in my head, I target the next time in life I\u2019m looking forward to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/05\/secretarys-corner-27-may-29\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,79,80,12,78],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secretarys-corner","tag-blog","tag-busy","tag-livingnow","tag-secretary","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}