{"id":1080,"date":"2015-02-06T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/everyday-holiness\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T08:00:44","slug":"everyday-holiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/everyday-holiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Holiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>I live in a wing of our Convent called &#8220;Elim&#8221;. It&#8217;s a Biblical name that means oasis, a shelter in the desert, a place of serenity and refuge. I&#8217;m fully aware that my personality brings daily chaos to the oasis, and that its godly purpose rests on fragile ground. One thing I can do is help create order and beauty in the space itself. I discovered an interesting verse, Psalm 93:5, that says: <i>Your statutes, Lord, stand firm; holiness adorns your house for endless days.<\/i> It occurred to me that all places (and people) dedicated to God should be adorned with holiness. I&#8217;m not sure what all that means, but I do know that beauty in ordinary things is an important component.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4158617\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5867-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/cM6hid_MA7o\" 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 live in a wing of our Convent called &#8220;Elim&#8221;. It&#8217;s a Biblical name that means oasis, a shelter in the desert, a place of serenity and refuge. I&#8217;m fully aware that my personality brings daily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/everyday-holiness\/\">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-1080","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\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}