{"id":1678,"date":"1992-10-28T14:53:45","date_gmt":"1992-10-28T14:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?page_id=1678"},"modified":"2013-12-02T13:24:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T13:24:39","slug":"blues-aint-nothing-but-a-good-soul-feeling-bad-1028","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/?page_id=1678","title":{"rendered":"10\/28"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BluesAintNothingBookCover\"<\/a>Ironically, many important things in our lives are most clearly defined by what they aren\u2019t, rather than by what they are; or they are best appreciated when we don\u2019t have them anymore. Health is a good example. Usually you don\u2019t wake up thinking. \u201cI\u2019m so glad I feel well today.\u201d But on those days you wake up feeling ill, you know that the best times were and will be when you\u2019re feeling well again.<\/p>\n

Minor contrasts and major catastrophes happen as a part of life, but out of the changes can come value. Without change, without disruption, some good and some bad, everything would be the same. We won\u2019t know peace and happiness if we can only experience one way of being.<\/p>\n

Unless we recognize that ups and downs are going to happen, we may easily spend our entire lives as passive reactors, instead of actively going forward in our uniquely chosen directions. Unless we realize that we can\u2019t wait to live until everything is in order, we\u2019ll end up asking ourselves as Rabbi Kushner did, \u201cWas there something I was supposed to do with my life?\u201d<\/p>\n

We have to play the hand we\u2019ve been dealt.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ironically, many important things in our lives are most clearly defined by what they aren\u2019t, rather than by what they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1678","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2R4NI-r4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1678\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodsoul.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}