{"id":13353,"date":"2018-07-31T18:10:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:02","slug":"true-colors-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/true-colors-near-a-river-bj-rae-eagle-encouraging-words\/","title":{"rendered":"True Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are your true colors?\u00a0 What are you really made of deep inside yourself?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Last year, we bought a home from the Cosgriffs.\u00a0 We have had lots of trouble with this home, from carpenter ants to appliances breaking and plenty of other repairs.\u00a0 Until last weekend, we only had one appliance left from the original appliances, the refrigerator.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the fridge totally crapped out on us so we called our appliance repair man Chris.\u00a0 He was out of town but came over yesterday morning.\u00a0 He replaced the relay switch in the back of the fridge and said that if this did not work, we had to replace the fridge because the compressor was the problem.<\/p>\n

Well, late yesterday, we realized that the fridge remained warm and we would have to get a new one.\u00a0 We went to the local appliance shop and found one we liked and scheduled the delivery for this morning.<\/p>\n

Before the scheduled delivery, I called Chris and let him know that the relay had not worked and that we had a new fridge coming in an hour.\u00a0 Chris came right over.\u00a0 We did not know why he had come over, but he simply verified the compressor was dead and offered us a refund for his repair.<\/p>\n

In spite of the fact that we had just lost an entire fridge and freezer full of food and spent several days eating in restaurants, we told Chris not to worry about a refund, that it is not his fault that our fridge\u2019s compressor died.\u00a0 We also told him that he had spent his time trying to help us with our problem and his time is valuable.<\/p>\n

Then I took him to our garden where he gathered a large bag of fresh veggies to enjoy.<\/p>\n

We could have been angry about the situation in general and taken it out on Chris. But we chose to be kind, because kindness is one of our true colors.<\/p>\n

What are your true colors?\u00a0 Your true colors are visible to everyone when you are under stress, so make sure they are attractive colors!<\/p>\n

Hopefully, your true colors give you the peace of an eagle<\/a> like ours give us!<\/p>\n

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Let the\u00a0encouraging words<\/a>\u00a0in these\u00a0near\u00a0a\u00a0river<\/a>\u00a0posts help you<\/h4>\n

soar like an\u00a0eagle<\/a>\u00a0above life\u2019s storms.<\/h4>\n

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No, it is not about you!<\/a><\/h4>\n

Getting older is a beautiful thing.<\/a><\/h4>\n

Why is there so much chaos today?<\/a><\/h4>\n

Advice that King Solomon might have given.<\/a><\/h4>\n

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for a\u00a0child<\/a>\u00a0you care about today!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What are your true colors?\u00a0 What are you really made of deep inside yourself?   Last year, we bought a home from the Cosgriffs.\u00a0 We have had lots of trouble with this home, from carpenter ants to appliances breaking and Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1862],"tags":[1588,77,1271,1269,6656,1328,1334,1270,1329,1337,1714,1332,1321,12,1331,1330,1320,1273,1322,1302,1274,1323,1325,1326,1324,19,1275,1319,1318,716,6659,1327,1336,1335,1268,6657,52,6658,1333,297,6660,6655,1299],"class_list":["post-13353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-problems-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words-eagle","tag-common-core-eagle-reading-book","tag-bj-rae","tag-books-for-children","tag-books-for-kids","tag-character","tag-child-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-reading-book","tag-common-core-book","tag-common-core-reading-book","tag-core-reading-book","tag-eagle","tag-eagle-book-for-child","tag-eagle-child-book","tag-eagle-children-book","tag-eagle-childrens-book","tag-eagle-core-reading-book","tag-eagle-kid-book","tag-eagle-kids-book","tag-eagle-reading-book","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-child","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-children","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-kids","tag-encouragement","tag-encouraging","tag-encouraging-childrens-book","tag-encouraging-kids-book","tag-encouraging-words","tag-identity","tag-kid-eagle-reading-book","tag-kid-reading-book","tag-kids-book","tag-kids-books","tag-make-up","tag-nature","tag-personality","tag-reading-book","tag-soar-like-an-eagle","tag-temperament","tag-true-colors","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13353"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21233,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions\/21233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}