{"id":103,"date":"2025-01-25T19:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T03:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/?p=103"},"modified":"2025-01-25T19:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T03:18:56","slug":"the-rain-thomas-kinkade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/the-rain-thomas-kinkade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rain : Thomas Kinkade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Stop at the picture for a second, and watch the rain\u2026 then read on\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-104 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/01\/ffd4ec7a71812ea1dc1a9ead313bfd6b.gif\" alt=\"The Rain : Thomas Kinkade Image\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of town, taking those extra<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>precautions necessary<br \/>\nwhen the roads are wet and slick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suddenly, my daughter, Aspen,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>spoke up from her relaxed position<br \/>\nin her seat. \u201cDad, I\u2019m<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>thinking of something.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This announcement usually meant she had been pondering some<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>fact for a while, and was now ready to expound<br \/>\nall that her six-year-old mind had<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>discovered.<br \/>\nI was eager to hear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhat are you thinking?\u201d I asked.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe rain,\u201d she began, \u201cis like sin, and the windshield<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>wipers are like God wiping our sins away.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>After the chill bumps raced up my arms, I was able to respond.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>That\u2019s really good, Aspen.\u201d\u00a0 Then my curiosity broke in.<br \/>\nHow far would this little girl take this revelation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, I asked\u2026 \u201cDo you notice how the rain keeps on coming?<br \/>\nWhat does that tell! you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspen didn\u2019t hesitate one moment with her answer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u201cWe keep on sinning, and God just keeps on forgiving us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I will always remember this whenever I turn my wipers on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In order to see the rainbow, you must first endure some rain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong><br \/>\n<em>I would rather live my life as if there is a God,<br \/>\nand die to find out there isn\u2019t, than live my<br \/>\nlife as if there isn\u2019t, and die to find out there is.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stop at the picture for a second, and watch the rain\u2026 then read on\u2026 One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of town, taking those extra\u00a0precautions necessary when the roads are wet and slick. Suddenly, my daughter, Aspen,\u00a0spoke up from her relaxed position in her seat. \u201cDad, I\u2019m\u00a0thinking of something.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religious-humor-g"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekinnovations.net\/elfkingdom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}