{"id":6249,"date":"2011-04-26T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6249"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","slug":"day-161-vase-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6249","title":{"rendered":"Day 161 &#8211; Vase (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The night before Easter, our friend Beka came down from Greenwood to spend the evening with us.\u00a0 Melissa made a great meal and Beka stuck around to enjoy the spectacle of our kids dyeing Easter eggs.\u00a0  Beka is a stateside missionary with OMS who lives very simply, in a plain\u00a0one-bedroom apartment (with\u00a0the tiniest kitchen you&#8217;ve ever seen!).\u00a0\u00a0 She is transitioning this week to a new position within OMS and our prayers are with her &#8211; she started out in journalism and is now starting work within the mobilization department.\u00a0 This means she&#8217;ll be helping to recruit potential missionaries and then supporting them in getting to the field.\u00a0 She&#8217;ll do wonderfully!\u00a0 I am certain God will be able to use her talents and abilities to impact the Kingdom in profound ways.\u00a0  Recently, Melissa learned that when Beka returned from a trip to Africa a few weeks back, a friend of hers presented her with flowers\u00a0&#8211; but\u00a0Beka had nothing to put them in but a plastic cup.\u00a0 So Melissa wanted to send a vase home with Beka.\u00a0 Like I said, Beka lives without a lot of frills, so it&#8217;s a real privilege to be able to give her something decorative for her apartment.\u00a0 Now she just needs some more flowers&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjZ8_mdURCJNjbcF1AXoNCeM-kpb0DZ4Lskq7KVPiHcDDULiLAtArlc8LKI8NP-G7qPyNGXjV6m3dND_pczd6DJHIbsqhnZfqHkvbWR3fwUc2ynm0idSiVE4W9Y2g4EIwexwShsLh_37Cc\/s320\/Picture+170.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night before Easter, our friend Beka came down from Greenwood to spend the evening with us.\u00a0 Melissa made a great meal and Beka stuck around to enjoy the spectacle of our kids dyeing Easter eggs.\u00a0 Beka is a stateside missionary with OMS who lives very simply, in a plain\u00a0one-bedroom apartment (with\u00a0the tiniest kitchen you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}