{"id":2987,"date":"2015-02-15T22:45:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T03:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2015-02-15T23:21:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T04:21:30","slug":"2987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2987","title":{"rendered":"Buddy,  can you spare a problem?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/twistytree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2988\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/twistytree.jpg\" alt=\"twistytree\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/twistytree.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/twistytree-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/branches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2989\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/branches.jpg\" alt=\"branches\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/branches.jpg 550w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/branches-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI had some really interesting conversations today.\u00a0 With a few different people&#8230; more than a few actually.\u00a0 And each individual brought a much different story, or conversation, or insight into my day.<\/p>\n<p>But one thing that I heard a few different times&#8230;.\u00a0 is that each and every one of us are&#8230;. at times&#8230; faced with a problem, or a challenge, or a hardship.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that life is a process of meeting and solving problems. And in doing such&#8230;. in unraveling the answer, or figuring out a solution&#8230;. we test and develop our spirituality.\u00a0 We find in ourselves&#8230; some sort of courage, or vision, or compassion.\u00a0 Fortitude.\u00a0 It is truly at those times when we become great&#8230;\u00a0 (\u00a0 if only for a moment\u00a0 ) &#8230;.. not in spite of our problems, but because of them.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if you pray or don&#8217;t pray.\u00a0 Or if you think higher thoughts about life&#8230; and call it something completely different.\u00a0 But perhaps we should not focus on praying for a life that has no problems.\u00a0 That would be fruitless.\u00a0 As I learned, (once again today) &#8230;. we all have problems.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than pray for a life that is problem-free&#8230;..maybe instead &#8230;. we should focus on having a life which is solution-full.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of walking six blocks around&#8230;. to avoid walking underneath a ladder&#8230;. we should simply go over&#8230; and move the ladder out of our path.<br \/>\nOr climb up&#8230; to the next floor above&#8230;. and see what&#8217;s might be there.<\/p>\n<p>We live.\u00a0 We learn.\u00a0 And we grow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The trouble with life isn&#8217;t that there is no answer, it&#8217;s that there are so many answers.\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Ruth Benedict<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Erich Fromm<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Are these people with the quotes just aimed to confuse me?\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Polly C Kronenberger<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some really interesting conversations today.\u00a0 With a few different people&#8230; more than a few actually.\u00a0 And each individual brought a much different story, or conversation, or insight into my day. But one thing that I heard a few different times&#8230;.\u00a0 is that each and every one of us are&#8230;. at times&#8230; faced with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2994,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/2994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}