{"id":7731,"date":"2018-02-19T21:29:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T02:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2018\/02\/19\/a-tangled-mess\/"},"modified":"2020-04-28T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:58:06","slug":"a-tangled-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/2018\/02\/19\/a-tangled-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tangled Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I read yesterday&#8217;s devotional from <em>Springs in the Valley, <\/em>I immediately pictured my drawer of thread.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"750\" height=\"1236\" class=\"wp-image-7728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2478.jpg?resize=750%2C1236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2478.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2478.jpg?resize=182%2C300&amp;ssl=1 182w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2478.jpg?resize=621%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There have been times I have reached in to get one particular color and ended up with several other spools &#8211; what a tangled mess I had!<\/p>\n<p>How very thankful I am that we can give the Lord the tangled mess of our lives while putting our complete trust in Him to untangle those seemingly impossible knots. What a wonderful Heavenly Father we have! I sure do love Him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" class=\"wp-image-7729 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2479.jpg?resize=960%2C1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2479.jpg?w=3024&amp;ssl=1 3024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2479.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2479.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2479.jpg?w=1920 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2479.jpg?w=2880 2880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"621\" class=\"wp-image-7730 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2480.jpg?resize=960%2C621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2480.jpg?w=1160&amp;ssl=1 1160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2480.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2480.jpg?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2480.jpg?resize=1024%2C662&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/img_2480.jpg?resize=464%2C300&amp;ssl=1 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I read yesterday&#8217;s devotional from Springs in the Valley, I immediately pictured my drawer of thread. There have been times I have reached in to get one particular color and ended up with several other spools &#8211; what a tangled mess I had! How very thankful I am that we can give the Lord the tangled mess of our lives while putting our complete trust in Him to untangle those seemingly impossible knots. What a wonderful Heavenly Father we have! I sure do love Him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[62,51,59,4,23,42,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backsliding","category-forgiveness","category-gods-love","category-gods-promises","category-grace","category-hope","category-restoration","category-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-20H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731","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=7731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9527,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7731\/revisions\/9527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}