{"id":3088,"date":"2010-08-23T20:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2010-08-23T20:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T00:11:27","slug":"a-picture-of-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/a-picture-of-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture of Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, we took this photo\u00a0on a cell phone at Duff Park in Murrysville, PA. [I apologize for the low quality.]<\/p>\n

I really wanted to share this because the image is a fantastic visual example of survival<\/strong>. Look carefully. The red square shows where the tree started. Perhaps some rocks gave way underneath it. Has that ever happened to you?<\/p>\n

It seems that for some time the tree was pointed down, away from live-giving sunlight.<\/p>\n

But what happened after years of struggle and persistence? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Growth. Survival. Resilience. Vigor. A Healthy (though precariously placed) Tree.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

How can you survive when the bottom drops out? Grow up. :)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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"I will survive," said the tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My prayer of thanksgiving<\/span>: God, thank you for this example and inspiration from your created world.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What are your reflections, thoughts, or comments?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amazing and inspiring tree photo: “I will survive!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[193,13,756,18,966,1055,1225,1226,1472,1538,1543,1577,1642,1643,37,1785,1787,2002,2285,55,2333,2531,2533,2552,58,6539,78,3272,79,3318,3319,3495,3501],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-amazing-photo","tag-christianity","tag-comfort","tag-depression","tag-determination","tag-duff-park","tag-family-fun","tag-family-hike","tag-god","tag-green","tag-grit","tag-hanging-in-there","tag-hiking","tag-hiking-trail","tag-hope","tag-inspiration","tag-inspirational-photo","tag-lesson-from-nature","tag-murrysville-pa","tag-nature","tag-never-give-up","tag-perseverance","tag-persistence","tag-photo","tag-photography","tag-spirituality","tag-stress","tag-struggle","tag-suffering","tag-survival","tag-survivor","tag-tree","tag-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}