{"id":613,"date":"2011-06-04T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2011-06-04T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T00:11:38","slug":"plain-and-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/plain-and-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Plain and Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lifetime ago, or so it seems, I read a book that became a part of my heart.  The book is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Plain-Simple-Womans-Journey-Amish\/dp\/0062501860\/\">Plain and Simple<\/a>&#8221; by Sue Bender.  It is about the journey Sue took to live with the Amish and what she learned.  For me, &#8220;Plain and Simple&#8221; was a breath of fresh air.  I slowed down and questioned that materialistic self-centered society around me.  Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m still quite the pampered princess&#8230;but for a moment, I stopped and realized these important truths:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life is more meaningful when I approach everything I do as sacred.  It doesn&#8217;t matter if I&#8217;m doing laundry, reading to my son or presenting on accessibility.  Every thing I do can be meaningful.  It all depends on the spirit in which I do it, that is what makes the difference.<\/li>\n<li>When I learned to stop resisting who I am&#8230;when I stopped trying to change myself into something I am not&#8230;when I trusted that there was nothing missing inside&#8230;I rediscovered me.<\/li>\n<li>When it comes right down to it, I believe with all my heart, that life is all about love.  When I&#8217;m in touch with my heart and when I follow my heart, I live my life fully.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is my truth, plain and simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifetime ago, or so it seems, I read a book that became a part of my heart. The book is &#8220;Plain and Simple&#8221; by Sue Bender. It is about the journey Sue took to live with the Amish and what she learned. For me, &#8220;Plain and Simple&#8221; was a breath of fresh air. I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/plain-and-simple\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plain and Simple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}