{"id":1047,"date":"2015-01-30T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-all-circumstances-2\/"},"modified":"2015-01-30T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T08:00:06","slug":"in-all-circumstances-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-all-circumstances-2\/","title":{"rendered":"In All Circumstances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about praising the Lord. Obviously, it&#8217;s not something I do on a regular basis, or I wouldn&#8217;t be considering it! I find it curious that it&#8217;s so much easier for me to complain and express negativity than to praise. Psalm 118 instructs us to <i>&#8220;give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.&#8221; <\/i>Its writer found himself in an unthinkable situation: enemies swarmed around like bees; he was pushed to the brink and beyond. Not to worry. He cried to the Lord and was rescued from his enemies. Perhaps a more accurate phrase would be<strong> <i>freed<\/i><\/strong> from his enemies, especially the inner ones of fear, doubt, and mistrust.\u00a0 I want to make the distinction that <i>we praise<\/i> because <i>He loves.<\/i> It isn&#8217;t always love as I wish it to be, but it&#8217;s a thorough love that addresses my deepest needs.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4100019\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5845-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/7QjMRTpD-yE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Sr. Nun Other I was thinking about praising the Lord. Obviously, it&#8217;s not something I do on a regular basis, or I wouldn&#8217;t be considering it! I find it curious that it&#8217;s so much easier for me to complain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/in-all-circumstances-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}