{"id":5670,"date":"2010-08-11T08:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T14:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=5670"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T17:48:55","slug":"the-pond-in-whitefish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/08\/the-pond-in-whitefish\/","title":{"rendered":"The pond in Whitefish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"Large\" href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug10\/WFPond3204.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Aug10\/WFPond3204W.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"450\" style=\"width: 650px; height: 450px\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I moved to Montana in early 1994, I lived in Whitefish.<\/p>\n<p>This pond wasn&#8217;t there at that time.  The entire view you see in this photo was open, grassy land that was subject to marshiness some springtimes during the runoff.  The pond &#8211; actually ponds &#8211; were made to wrangle that marshiness into submission and allow for a soccer complex, a new hospital, a church and a LOT of houses.  Like all change, there are both positive and negative perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>Karl and I, Zack and I before Karl &#8211; walked here when it was grassy or snow covered before the pond and other development.  Karl and I walk there now when we go to Whitefish.  Karl and I were there yesterday for a vet appointment &#8211; he is fine! &#8230;.but there was a question and it held the possibility of being not so fine.<\/p>\n<p>The question has been &#8220;on the table&#8221; for a little over a week. Even as things pointed toward a good outcome and I, along with a small, but mighty army of prayer warriors prayed for healing, strength, wisdom and grace&#8230;still, for us humans, it is challenging to keep fear and worry completely at bay.<\/p>\n<p>My dear friend, Jeannine, wrote: &#8220;I have been holding my breath and praying God&#8217;s presence, as I felt you skirting the edge of the unknown, or whatever you call that place where everything changes all at once.  Changing a little at a time, we can handle with some grace.&#8221;  That, so succintly put, is the rub&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, yesterday, from sunrise to sunset, everything in Karl&#8217;s and my world flowed smoothly, gurgling happily like mountain snowmelt making its way to a valley pond.  The Hand of God showed itself in the morning beauty of the pond in Whitefish and gave us calm and peace.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center-noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar09\/EndofPost64050.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"50\" style=\"width: 640px; height: 50px\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved to Montana in early 1994, I lived in Whitefish. This pond wasn&#8217;t there at that time. The entire view you see in this photo was open, grassy land that was subject to marshiness some springtimes during the runoff. The pond &#8211; actually ponds &#8211; were made to wrangle that marshiness into submission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-nature","category-pets","category-spirituality"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21771,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5670\/revisions\/21771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}