{"id":478,"date":"2020-07-17T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=478"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:50:09","slug":"indebted-beholden-thankful-gifted-grateful-all-of-the-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/17\/indebted-beholden-thankful-gifted-grateful-all-of-the-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Indebted, Beholden, Thankful, Gifted, Grateful: all of the above."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-17-2020-thankful-hands-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-17-2020-thankful-hands-3.jpg 333w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/7-17-2020-thankful-hands-3-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 16px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>Lessons<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>Sometimes I wonder why this or that<br>Soul has entered my life. I try to see what<br>lesson I asked to be given me, so I might<br>learn and how this one or that one<br>has helped, or will help guide me through<br>moments when I have lost my way.<br>\u00a0<br>At times, the answers seem clear ~ at<br>others, not so much. Yet, I believe every<br>Spirit I encounter has some reason or other.<br>\u00a0<br>I know it. I may never understand it all, in fact,<br>I am certain I will not.\u00a0 But that\u2019s okay,<br>because some lessons are like rock crystal<br>and some are like mud; some lessons force<br>me to try over and over and some just<br>glide past, like I knew the answers, all along.<br>\u00a0<br>I probably did.\u00a0 Just needed you.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>To say I am grateful is a gross understatement.\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>We wend our way through the moments and<br>days of our lives, often as if we remain asleep<br>for most of it.\u00a0 It\u2019s so wonderful to experience<br>Souls who are genuine, who care, who bless<br>and without an agenda. We arrive at a certain age<br>and we hope for clarity, but often the world<br>seems even more confusing than it was when<br>we were young.\u00a0 But there are Energies out there,<br>who are simply willing to Be and eager to Love.<br>\u00a0<br>I am one. So, are you. YOU. The Blessings you gift<br>me are not lost on me.\u00a0 We mirror one another and,<br>at our best we Shine brighter than the brightest stars.\u00a0<br>I am so grateful, grateful you have anchored in my heart.<br>You.\u00a0<br>YOU.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>By Barbara Helvey Hughes ~ 7-25-2018 For Peter\/revision 7-16-2020<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}