{"id":16456,"date":"2011-09-03T18:41:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T22:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16456"},"modified":"2011-09-03T18:41:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T22:41:36","slug":"when-i-prayed-for-patience-why-did-my-life-get-more-hectic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-i-prayed-for-patience-why-did-my-life-get-more-hectic\/","title":{"rendered":"When I prayed for patience, why did my life get more hectic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I prayed for patience and wondered why my life got more hectic. \u00a0What about <em>ask and you shall receive<\/em>? \u00a0Where&#8217;s my freaken patience? \u00a0 Years later, it finally sunk in: \u00a0If I ask for patience, the Universe will give me new opportunities to respond differently when a situation demanding patience arises. \u00a0 I can choose to continue being pissed off, anxious and restless, or I can take the time to sit back and breathe and remind myself not to sweat the small stuff. \u00a0 And that, yes, really, it is all small stuff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-i-prayed-for-patience-why-did-my-life-get-more-hectic\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=When I prayed for patience, why did my life get more hectic?&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-i-prayed-for-patience-why-did-my-life-get-more-hectic\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-i-prayed-for-patience-why-did-my-life-get-more-hectic\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-i-prayed-for-patience-why-did-my-life-get-more-hectic\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=When%20I%20prayed%20for%20patience,%20why%20did%20my%20life%20get%20more%20hectic?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/when-i-prayed-for-patience-why-did-my-life-get-more-hectic\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago I prayed for patience and wondered why my life got more hectic. \u00a0What about ask and you shall receive? \u00a0Where&#8217;s my freaken patience? \u00a0 Years later, it finally sunk in: \u00a0If I ask for patience, the Universe will give me new opportunities to respond differently when a situation demanding patience arises. \u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16456"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16463,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16456\/revisions\/16463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}