{"id":1218,"date":"2024-10-06T11:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T18:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2024-10-12T15:34:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T22:34:56","slug":"1218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"Deer Fatigue\u00a9 \u2013 Psalm 42:1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2024-Blog-October-Week-1-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the seasonal springs dry up on our mountain, the deer have to travel all the way to the valley floor for a drink. The mountainside is steep and rocky, littered with debris from glacial till, forest fires, logging machinery, and natural deterioration of the flora. It is \u201cwork\u201d just to stay upright while traversing the deer trails \u2013 I cannot imagine having to do it every day.<\/p>\n<p>Do you crave time with God? Do you take the time and effort to include Him in your day \u2013 every day \u2013 even when it seems like \u201cwork\u201d to do so? He should be the most important part of your day, not an afterthought. Crave Him!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee \u2026&#8221;<br \/>\nFrances R. Havergal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the seasonal springs dry up on our mountain, the deer have to travel all the way to the valley &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/?p=1218\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue reading &gt;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deer Fatigue\u00a9 \u2013 Psalm 42:1<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotionals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1225,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christianmountainliving.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}