{"id":518,"date":"2012-03-09T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/03\/girls-in-white-dresses.html"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:49:05","slug":"girls-in-white-dresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rebeccafrech\/2012\/03\/girls-in-white-dresses.html","title":{"rendered":"Girls in White Dresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>It has been all too easy in the last couple weeks to lose sight of the big picture around here.\u00a0 I keep focusing in on the trials and forgetting the celebrations.\u00a0 This is our Spring of Sacraments, our Season of Grace.\u00a0 How fitting that in this dark, dark time our family will be receiving the strength and consolation required to get us through it.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I\u2019d share the happy with you.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-HejloZiVejE\/T1pXyjzywxI\/AAAAAAAABDE\/bE5QdPQl8PA\/s1600\/img_0005_%231.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-HejloZiVejE\/T1pXyjzywxI\/AAAAAAAABDE\/bE5QdPQl8PA\/s640\/img_0005_%231.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">#\u2019s 1, 4, and 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Confirmation, First Communion and Baptism all with in a few months of each other.\u00a0 Is it any wonder the Devil\u2019s hitting us so hard?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-rthhrMjHCsM\/T1pYUk4zm5I\/AAAAAAAABDU\/7W61JrpRVGk\/s1600\/img_0018.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-rthhrMjHCsM\/T1pYUk4zm5I\/AAAAAAAABDU\/7W61JrpRVGk\/s320\/img_0018.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-fICztuslDHM\/T1pYWCcZRXI\/AAAAAAAABDc\/fl8GJRv4uwI\/s1600\/img_0032_%231.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-fICztuslDHM\/T1pYWCcZRXI\/AAAAAAAABDc\/fl8GJRv4uwI\/s320\/img_0032_%231.jpg\" width=\"213\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-tqGlEYYRrGk\/T1pYXnlawUI\/AAAAAAAABDk\/uHij1aQNPWc\/s1600\/img_0047_%231.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/458\/-tqGlEYYRrGk\/T1pYXnlawUI\/AAAAAAAABDk\/uHij1aQNPWc\/s320\/img_0047_%231.jpg\" width=\"213\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been all too easy in the last couple weeks to lose sight of the big picture around here.\u00a0 I keep focusing in on the trials and forgetting the celebrations.\u00a0 This is our Spring of Sacraments, our Season of Grace.\u00a0 How fitting that in this dark, dark time our family will be receiving the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Girls in White Dresses<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It has been all too easy in the last couple weeks to lose sight of the big picture around here.&nbsp; 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