{"id":1503,"date":"2010-08-14T23:33:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-08-14T23:33:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T04:33:42","slug":"pure-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2010\/08\/14\/pure-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Joy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BigBoy decided Friday night that he wanted a Bible of his very own.\u00a0 His big brother received an Adventure Bible a few years back.\u00a0 thePinkDiva has commandeered the Read To Me Bible we have for the kidlets.\u00a0 So off we went, bright and early Saturday morning, to the Christian Bookstore down the road.<\/p>\n<p>BigBoy took his time, looking over the selection of Bibles at the  store.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll never forget the look on his face when he made his decision  and carefully picked out the Bible He wanted.\u00a0 He clutched the Bible to  his chest, and told the cashier how happy he was to have his own  Bible.\u00a0 He carried it so tenderly to the car.\u00a0 He gazed lovingly at it  as we drove home, talking excitedly about how he couldn&#8217;t wait to get  home and show the rest of the family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0310718287?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=ranthoofayoum-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0310718287\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1504 lazyload\" title=\"51fn2VvppkL._SL160_\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/08\/51fn2VvppkL._SL160_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe found the cutest Veggie Tale Bible.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an actual Bible, with all kinds of goodies like verses to remember, and information at the front of each book telling a bit about it.\u00a0 Plus, several of our favorite Veggie &#8216;toons have been turned into short comic strips and interspersed through out the Bible, complete with references to locate the actual Biblical story.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so cute!<\/p>\n<p>(And, in the interest of full disclosure, I have NOT been paid by Big Idea for this review.\u00a0 I mean, I won&#8217;t complain if they want to send me a few of their new DVDs&#8230;\u00a0 but yea, totes not compensated for this, ok FCC &amp; Big Govt.)<\/p>\n<p>When we finally got home from our errands, he ran into the house, threw himself down on the carpeted hall right next to the door, and pulled the slipcover from his very own Bible.\u00a0 He lay there on his stomach, flipping the pages, pointing out comics and words he recognized for a good 5 minutes &#8211; which for a 5 yr old boy, is practically a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=ranthoofayoum-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0310718287\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"His first Bible.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thekytikat\/4891674404\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4143\/4891674404_260ef2f9bb.jpg\" alt=\"His first Bible.\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My heart filled with joy as I watched my son enjoying God&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BigBoy decided Friday night that he wanted a Bible of his very own.\u00a0 His big brother received an Adventure Bible a few years back.\u00a0 thePinkDiva has commandeered the Read To &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-study","category-deep-thoughts","category-family_life","category-joy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}