{"id":4022,"date":"2014-12-12T06:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T12:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2014-12-12T06:43:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T12:43:08","slug":"heart-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/heart-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime mid October, it had been a really busy morning and I felt like I was going to be late to a meeting I had to get to.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, to avoid being late, I was rushing and dashing out the door.\u00a0 Meanwhile, going thru my mind was &#8211; I hope I&#8217;m not forgetting anything.<\/p>\n<p>Then I consciously started to think, how I really don&#8217;t like when I get like this; my mind racing, feeling rushed.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this is when something usually happens, or I make a mistake and didn&#8217;t catch something I should have.\u00a0 In the hopes of trying to control it, I still continue on &#8211; dashing to the car.<\/p>\n<p>I get into the car pull-out of the garage and the garage door goes down but right before closing it goes back up.\u00a0 What the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This never happens, so I try it again, watching very closely.\u00a0 As it goes down, I notice the sun was so bright, as the door starts to completely shut, with a little help of the sun the door itself seems to cast a shadow into safety-beam at the bottom of the door &#8211; activating it &#8211; as if someone, or something is in the way.<\/p>\n<p>I get out of the car and walk up on the door and what do I see&#8230; only one leaf on the driveway and it&#8217;s shaped as a heart.<\/p>\n<p>I just laugh &#8211; here I am feeling rushed, and even though I would prefer not to be, I&#8217;m rushing anyways.\u00a0 So nature steps in to help; the sun with the door, leading me to the heart shaped leaf.<\/p>\n<p>As U can see yourself,\u00a0 I took time and to go back to the car and get my phone to take a pic.\u00a0 After I took the pic, I said to myself out load, what am I going to do about the sun and the door?<\/p>\n<p>I kid U not, within a second after I said this, the sun went away.\u00a0 I laughed again, turned around looked into the perfect blue sky and there was only one cloud in the sky and it was now covering the sun.\u00a0 I consciously no longer felt rushed &#8211; it was like my mind was at peace.<\/p>\n<p>I got in the car and thought, WOW! what a great internal lesson, not to mention a fantastic story for this heart leaf.\u00a0 Naturally, my next thought was too bad the cloud wasn&#8217;t heart shaped as well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime mid October, it had been a really busy morning and I felt like I was going to be late to a meeting I had to get to. Obviously, to avoid being late, I was rushing and dashing out the door.\u00a0 Meanwhile, going thru my mind was &#8211; I hope I&#8217;m not forgetting anything. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[682,981,1015,1247],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-hearts","tag-fall","tag-heart-shaped","tag-hearts","tag-leaf-red"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seeinghearts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/leave-curved-heart-1.jpg?fit=2448%2C2411&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/3592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seeinghearts.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}