{"id":623,"date":"2007-12-05T16:39:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/billy-graham\/"},"modified":"2007-12-05T16:39:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:39:14","slug":"billy-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/05\/billy-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What I found interesting in Billy Graham&#8217;s letter &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, his wife Ruth saw a sign on the highway and said she wanted that on her epitaph. She passed away on June 14th earlier this year. On her marker are the words &#8220;End of Construction. Thank you for your patience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s really cute.<\/p>\n<p>Just the other day as I was driving in Chino Hills, I went through a construction zone where they are building a new shopping plaza. I made a mental note to take an alternate route instead of driving through there again.<\/p>\n<p>We have no patience for road construction, and we have no patience for people under construction. We&#8217;d rather avoid them. Yet, aren&#8217;t we all in process? Does not our inadequacies hold up the traffic, and work of God is hindered? Let&#8217;s just agree to give each other a break.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your patience.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing mentioned in Billy Graham&#8217;s letter &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I wish I was 30 years younger and could go back out and preach the Good News again, but age and health will not permit it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I was younger, I never thought about what I couldn&#8217;t do. I can do whatever I want to do. But I am beginning to face the reality that my life on earth is finite and my physical body is limited. I could have a strong will to do something, even something noble, yet not be able to do it because age and health will not permit it. That is a scary thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I found interesting in Billy Graham&#8217;s letter &#8211; Years ago, his wife Ruth saw a sign on the highway and said she wanted that on her epitaph. She passed away on June 14th earlier this year. On her marker are the words &#8220;End of Construction. Thank you for your patience.&#8221; That&#8217;s really cute. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","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=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}