{"id":1090,"date":"2015-02-13T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/worrier-or-warrior\/"},"modified":"2015-02-13T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T08:00:55","slug":"worrier-or-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/worrier-or-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrier or Warrior?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>In Matthew 6:25-27, Jesus tells us not to be anxious. He reassures us he&#8217;s in control, and we have nothing to worry about. I&#8217;ve always found comfort in that concept, but I think its intent is more than to make me feel better. It really is a command and an important one, mentioned multiple times in the New Testament. Jesus knows what we can carry and what we cannot. When I allow my mind to dwell on all things negative, I become weak and ineffectual. I&#8217;m no longer a spiritual warrior, focused on my spiritual journey. Worrier or Warrior &#8212; it&#8217;s a daily choice.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4366337\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5872-300x200.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\/dC8KrFTiuGc\" 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 In Matthew 6:25-27, Jesus tells us not to be anxious. He reassures us he&#8217;s in control, and we have nothing to worry about. I&#8217;ve always found comfort in that concept, but I think its intent is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/worrier-or-warrior\/\">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-1090","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\/1090","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=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}