{"id":9531,"date":"2022-05-23T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9531"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"a-fathers-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9531","title":{"rendered":"A FATHER&#8217;S PLEASURE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a father, I find great joy in seeing my kids experience great joy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent weeks I have thoroughly enjoyed\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Watching Sarah sing and dance on stage.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Watching Samuel interact with new friends.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Watching Hannah plant flowers in pottery she created this semester.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And lately &#8230; seeing photos of Caleb.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caleb is in Florence, Italy for a couple of weeks for a study abroad experience.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He just finished a hard semester that was part of a tough year that was part of a difficult college experience so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now &#8211; for a short time &#8211; he is climbing the Tower of Pisa, touring the Roman Coliseum, and eating gelato.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I simply cannot describe how elated I am to see these photos and that big smile on his face.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, standing beside him in St. Peter&#8217;s Square might honestly bring me only slightly more pleasure than I am feeling from afar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/received_507160097799127-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/received_700754991133499-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/received_715955186280102-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/received_735576504535054-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/received_1248526889013004-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It might do each of us a lot of good to contemplate now and then how there must be times in our lives when our heavenly Father takes great pleasure in watching what we are up to.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a father, I find great joy in seeing my kids experience great joy. In recent weeks I have thoroughly enjoyed\u00a0 And lately &#8230; seeing photos of Caleb. Caleb is in Florence, Italy for a couple of weeks for a study abroad experience. He just finished a hard semester that was part of a tough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9531","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\/9531","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=9531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9537,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531\/revisions\/9537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}