{"id":2280,"date":"2014-07-08T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T18:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T18:31:05","slug":"post-vacation-let-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/08\/post-vacation-let-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Post vacation let-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that feeling of coming home after a fun vacation, a let-down of being back to the usual, the mundane, back to the mess you made before you took off for vacation? I&#8217;m feeling it now, after a fun 5 days in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Here are my reflections about that: It made me realize that I have much to learn to have my JOY anchored in Jesus, not in my circumstances. The &#8220;happiness&#8221; that I have from my great life is not always true JOY. \u00a0If it were I would not lose it. Rather it is happiness based on circumstances that I mistaken for JOY.<\/p>\n<p>I have a great life, no complaints, I love my \u00a0regular ordinary life. But I am so satisfied that I don&#8217;t seek true JOY. As C.S. Lewis says, &#8220;\u201cIt would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I make a lot of mud pies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that feeling of coming home after a fun vacation, a let-down of being back to the usual, the mundane, back to the mess you made before you took off for vacation? I&#8217;m feeling it now, after a fun 5 days in Seattle. Here are my reflections about that: It made me realize that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}