{"id":31888,"date":"2013-08-26T00:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T04:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=31888"},"modified":"2013-08-27T00:28:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:28:01","slug":"we-dont-grow-when-things-are-easy-we-grow-when-we-face-challenges-joyce-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-grow-when-things-are-easy-we-grow-when-we-face-challenges-joyce-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"We don&#8217;t grow when things are easy. We grow when we face challenges."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=31891\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-31891\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-31891\" title=\"rock plant\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rock-plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a>Last year was my growth spurt. Now I feel I&#8217;ve made it around the detour and broken through the surface. Now I get to bask in the sun. It was worth the journey, detour or not. I&#8217;m always right where I am supposed to be. Bless the rocks that appear, they show me I can morph and bend and make my way around anything.<\/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\/we-dont-grow-when-things-are-easy-we-grow-when-we-face-challenges-joyce-meyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=We don&#8217;t grow when things are easy. We grow when we face challenges.&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-grow-when-things-are-easy-we-grow-when-we-face-challenges-joyce-meyer\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-grow-when-things-are-easy-we-grow-when-we-face-challenges-joyce-meyer\/\" 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\/we-dont-grow-when-things-are-easy-we-grow-when-we-face-challenges-joyce-meyer\/\" 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=We%20don&#8217;t%20grow%20when%20things%20are%20easy.%20We%20grow%20when%20we%20face%20challenges.&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/we-dont-grow-when-things-are-easy-we-grow-when-we-face-challenges-joyce-meyer\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was my growth spurt. Now I feel I&#8217;ve made it around the detour and broken through the surface. Now I get to bask in the sun. It was worth the journey, detour or not. I&#8217;m always right where I am supposed to be. Bless the rocks that appear, they show me I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888","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=31888"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31922,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31888\/revisions\/31922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}