{"id":9339,"date":"2012-04-18T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2012-09-30T17:22:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T22:22:48","slug":"make-a-difference-with-spreadingjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/make-a-difference-with-spreadingjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Make A Difference With SpreadingJOY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9341\" title=\"spreadingjoydaily\" src=\"http:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spreadingjoydaily.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spreadingjoydaily.jpg 162w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spreadingjoydaily-128x200.jpg 128w, https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/spreadingjoydaily-51x80.jpg 51w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/>Our dear friend and\u00a0contributing blogger,\u00a0Marie Wikle, founder of <a title=\"SpreadingJOY\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spreading-joy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpreadingJOY<\/a>, has just published \u00a0her first book, appropriately titled&#8230; <span style=\"color: #00ccff;\"><em><strong>Spreading JOY Daily.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is an amazing book filled with 365 ways to spread joy and encouragement throughout the year. Broken down by month, Marie leads you day by day through a whole year of so many ways to bless others.<\/p>\n<p>Ways such as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">January 25 &#8211; Leave a sticky note of encouragement on everyone&#8217;s computer today&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">February 6 &#8211; Recycle magazines by giving them to a women&#8217;s shelter or even a nursing home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">June 11 &#8211; Give kind words freely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">August 28 &#8211; Pay a local teenager to mow a neighbor&#8217;s lawn. Two acts of spreading joy in one!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">October 21 &#8211; Run errands for a new mom. This is such a valuable gift of time&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">December 21 &#8211; Make 20 sack lunches and pass out to homeless in your area&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Why not check out the many ways you can encourage your family, friends, and your community. You too can make an impact no matter how small, like a ripple in a pond&#8230;all in the name of Jesus!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><div id='spreadingjoy_daily_book' class='widgets_on_page wop_tiny1  wop_small1  wop_medium1  wop_large1  wop_wide1'>\n\t\t\t<ul><!-- ERROR NO TURBO SIDEBAR FOUND WITH ID spreadingjoy daily book--><\/ul><\/div><!-- widgets_on_page -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear friend and\u00a0contributing blogger,\u00a0Marie Wikle, founder of SpreadingJOY, has just published \u00a0her first book, appropriately titled&#8230; Spreading JOY Daily. This is an amazing book filled with 365 ways to spread joy and encouragement throughout the year. Broken down by month, Marie leads you day by day through a whole year of so many ways &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/18\/make-a-difference-with-spreadingjoy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make A Difference With SpreadingJOY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2379,371],"tags":[2990,4417,4431,4416,4429,4426,4428,4420,2726,1141,4425,4419,4421,4430,4424,4427,195,4418,4423,2532,4422],"class_list":["post-9339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived","category-guest","category-rose","tag-acts","tag-amazing-book","tag-dear-friend","tag-exciting-news","tag-family-friends","tag-gift-of-time","tag-homeless","tag-magazines","tag-name-of-jesus","tag-neighbor","tag-new-mom","tag-note-of-encouragement","tag-nursing-home","tag-ripple","tag-run-errands","tag-sack-lunches","tag-spreading-joy","tag-sticky-note","tag-teenager","tag-widgets","tag-women-s-shelter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianrep.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}