{"id":5292,"date":"2014-05-24T23:33:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T05:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2014-05-25T18:58:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T00:58:05","slug":"graduation-day-and-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=5292","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Day and Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5294\" alt=\"Graduation Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Day-510x510.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Day-510x510.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Day-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Day-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Day.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hey there. I know.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a while. Life has taken a dramatic turn and I needed to step back and take a break for a few weeks. It was needful and worthwhile<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>During that time, I graduated. After two years of college, I now have a diploma in Exercise Science! A *virtual pat on the back inserted here*<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5293\" alt=\"Friends on Grad Day\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Friends-on-Grad-Day-510x510.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Friends-on-Grad-Day-510x510.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Friends-on-Grad-Day-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Friends-on-Grad-Day-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Friends-on-Grad-Day.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a wonderful feeling to finally be done college! Now I\u2019m working on getting my CPT (certified personal trainer) with CSEP. It might be a couple months, but it\u2019s all good. I\u2019m not really in a rush.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5295\" alt=\"Graduation Roses\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Roses-510x510.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Roses-510x510.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Roses-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Roses-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Graduation-Roses.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(<em>Graduation roses from my sister<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I should explain why the blogging stopped for this time\u2026but I\u2019m not going to go into detail as it\u2019s not really my story to share.<\/p>\n<p>On the day I graduated, one of my nephews choked and was without air for about 20 minutes. That time was enough for his brain activity to stop&#8230;during this time, you know\u2026you just can\u2019t do anything\u2026except maybe pray and cry and wonder what God is doing.<\/p>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing, he\u2019s alive. God is working. And even when life isn\u2019t good\u2026God is. Through the years of my walking with God, the thing that is most real to me is that God is trustworthy\u2026no matter what happens. The story isn\u2019t finished being written yet\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5296\" alt=\"Holding Hands\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Holding-Hands-510x510.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Holding-Hands-510x510.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Holding-Hands-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Holding-Hands-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Holding-Hands.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I finally think I\u2019m ready to come back and see what my new normal of life is like, now that I\u2019m graduated and I\u2019ve had some time off.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be posting regularly again and have some exciting plans for the future\u2026thank you all for being such wonderful readers and supporting me through these last\u00a0 few years. It\u2019s been a good journey.<\/p>\n<p>And when God is in it, it always is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there. I know. It\u2019s been a while. Life has taken a dramatic turn and I needed to step back and take a break for a few weeks. It was needful and worthwhile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2757,2758,2756],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}