{"id":9073,"date":"2026-07-12T00:38:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9073"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:15","slug":"expansion-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9073","title":{"rendered":"EXPANSION AHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c<i>Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one\u2019s courage.<\/i>\u201d \u2014 Ana\u00efs Nin<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">God willing, in less than two weeks, I will be stepping off a plane in Accra, Ghana with three college students &#8211; one being my youngest daughter, Sarah.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will be my privilege to show them around the country and introduce them to microfinance as ministry.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across the quote posted above in an email today and I include it here in hopes that I remember to share it with the three students.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It takes a lot of courage to pack your bags and head to Africa for two weeks when you are still in your teens.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s gutsy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And their lives &#8211; and faiths &#8211; will expand as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I will have a front row seat to watch that expansion!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one\u2019s courage.\u201d \u2014 Ana\u00efs Nin God willing, in less than two weeks, I will be stepping off a plane in Accra, Ghana with three college students &#8211; one being my youngest daughter, Sarah. It will be my privilege to show them around the country and introduce them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073","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=9073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9073\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}