{"id":1077,"date":"2014-09-13T22:54:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T02:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2014-09-13T22:54:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T02:54:57","slug":"tunnel-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2014\/09\/13\/tunnel-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel Experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cWhen a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.\u201d ~ Corrie Ten Boom<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fact that my Honskins and I were both born and raised in WV has meant many trips back home over the last 33+ years. When our children were young, one of the highlights for them was driving through the two tunnels in VA. Just the anticipation of a tunnel up ahead was good for keeping the little ones fairly content for a while on their long ride. We were able to relive that tunnel excitement recently when we took Courtney and the GRANDbabies up for a quick WV visit. Watching their little eyes grow big as we entered the darkened path, and then cheers while driving back into light brought back some sweet memories.<\/p>\n

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As a Christian, we can liken our trials to those tunnels. Even though James 1:2 tells us to, \u201c\u2026count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations\u201d, I must admit that I am not quite to the place where I eagerly anticipate the tunnels. BUT, while thinking about it this afternoon, one thing I can say without reservation \u2013<\/p>\n

\u201cTunnel experiences sure do make us appreciate that light at the end.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong> <\/i><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.\u201d\u00a0 Psalm 30:5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

~ Rachel ~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.\u201d ~ Corrie Ten Boom The fact that my Honskins and I were both born and raised in WV has meant many trips back home over the last 33+ years. When our children were young, one of the highlights for them was driving through the two tunnels in VA. Just the anticipation of a tunnel up ahead was good for keeping the little ones fairly content for a while on their long ride. We were able to relive that tunnel excitement recently when we took Courtney and the GRANDbabies up for a quick WV visit. Watching their little eyes grow big as we entered the darkened path, and then cheers while driving back into light brought back some sweet memories. As a Christian, we can liken our trials to those tunnels. Even though James 1:2 tells us to, \u201c\u2026count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations\u201d, I must admit that I am not quite to the place where I eagerly anticipate the tunnels. BUT, while thinking about it this afternoon, one thing I can say without reservation \u2013 \u201cTunnel experiences sure do make us appreciate that light at the end.\u201d\u00a0 \u201c\u2026weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.\u201d\u00a0 Psalm 30:5 ~ Rachel ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,40,46,6,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","category-joy","category-patience","category-perseverance","category-quotes","category-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-hn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}