{"id":5321,"date":"2012-02-20T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=5321"},"modified":"2012-02-20T11:06:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:06:33","slug":"40-years-in-reflecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/40-years-in-reflecting\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years in Reflecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/DPphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"179\" \/>Paula and I <strong>celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary<\/strong> this past weekend.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a great time of reflecting on the decisions that we&#8217;ve made in the past and how they&#8217;ve borne fruit to create our present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Yesterday at The Gathering I shared with our whole Gathering family the three biggest regrets I have looking back over the last forty years.\u00a0 I know they&#8217;re forgiven.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been given grace.\u00a0 But maybe articulating them will help you avoid some of the pitfalls I didn&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But mostly, I talked about the <strong>five things that I definitely don&#8217;t regret doing<\/strong>.\u00a0 How many of us made a decision forty years ago that today we&#8217;re thrilled we made?\u00a0 For me, this is one of them.\u00a0 As you listen to this talk, <strong>think about the things you are doing today to make your family, your marriage stronger, more fruitful, more joyful<\/strong> so that when you reflect on your 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, or beyond, you&#8217;ll be able to smile and rejoice in the goodness of God and the assurance that if we do life God&#8217;s way, everyone wins.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula and I celebrated our 40th Wedding Anniversary this past weekend.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a great time of reflecting on the decisions that we&#8217;ve made in the past and how they&#8217;ve borne fruit to create our present. Yesterday at The Gathering I shared with our whole Gathering family the three biggest regrets I have looking back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/40-years-in-reflecting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;40 Years in Reflecting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5321"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}