{"id":2213,"date":"2015-03-09T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T18:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2015-03-10T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T21:50:02","slug":"today-is-what-we-have-fight-for-a-soft-heart-today-praying-for-kara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Today is What We Have – Fight for a Soft Heart Today – Praying for Kara"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blog<\/a>No posts from Kara & Company over the weekend, and I was holding my breath. Kara Tippetts is one of the loveliest women I’ve never met. She is a Christ-follower, pastor’s wife, mom of 4, writer, and amazing sister and friend. How I know her is through the cancer she battles, through her faith, \u00a0and through her writing…this is how I know her and how I love her.<\/p>\n

Today, exhaling, a post came up on her Facebook page. She was writing about a friend, Jay Lyons, who was producing a documentary about her journey through cancer. She linked to the documentary<\/a> as will I.<\/p>\n

In the documentary, she talks about having to leave the party early.<\/p>\n

[Sidebar: I write about sad things sometimes. Don’t leave the party early yourselves, dear readers. Her life is so rich, so real; I want you to know Kara. So hang in there with me. Her journey right now is so much more than sad; she has so much to teach us about life…don’t miss it.]<\/p>\n

Kara says, “I know I’ve got cancer. I know I’m going to die of it, but I also know I have today, and so in this today, I get to live well.”<\/p>\n

She talks about her husband, Jason. “Jason shows me the best of what life has to offer mostly in encouraging me to fight for a soft heart<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Finally, she talks about the cancer and her Father, God: “I want to be able to share this story, that suffering isn’t a mistake and isn’t the absence of God’s goodness, because He’s present in pain.”<\/p>\n

When Kara talks, those who doubt the goodness of God have no place to speak into her experience. She trusts God for today.<\/p>\n

Pray for Kara and Jason today. Pray for a soft heart…for her, for them…for all of us.\"Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

Kara Tippetts – Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n

Kara Tippetts Blog – Mundane Faithfulness<\/a><\/p>\n

Dying with Grace – By Faith<\/em> Magazine Interview with Kara<\/a><\/p>\n

Kara Tippetts Documentary Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n

Kara’s book The Hardest Peace<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Documentary Indiegogo Project Funding<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo Credits – Kara & Jason Before Chemo<\/a> and Kara & Jason After<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No posts from Kara & Company over the weekend, and I was holding my breath. Kara Tippetts is one of the loveliest women I’ve never met. She is a Christ-follower, pastor’s wife, mom of 4, writer, and amazing sister and friend. How I know her is through the cancer she battles, through her faith, \u00a0and … Continue reading Today is What We Have – Fight for a Soft Heart Today – Praying for Kara<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[810,794,147,440,50,903,599,33,18,263,353,433],"tags":[264,268,1066,1063,1842,1062,949,1050,1065,368,1064],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-good-gifts","category-faithfulness","category-family-2","category-give","category-god","category-grace","category-heaven","category-inspired","category-jesus","category-lives-full-of-god","category-monday-morning-moment","category-pray","tag-cancer","tag-dying","tag-fight","tag-god-is-present","tag-heaven","tag-jason-tippetts","tag-kara-tippetts","tag-mundane-faithfulness","tag-soft-heart","tag-suffering","tag-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pauPAB-zH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}