{"id":1116,"date":"2015-02-20T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/all-that-sparkles\/"},"modified":"2015-02-20T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:00:59","slug":"all-that-sparkles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/all-that-sparkles\/","title":{"rendered":"All That Sparkles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>Greetings from snow-entrenched Cape Cod! I spoke to someone yesterday who still loves snow, in spite of our current situation. Me? I&#8217;m ready to move on. Weather-enforced &#8220;quiet moments&#8221; in front of the fire no longer charm. Gazing at drifts and snow engraved foot prints does not delight me. I&#8217;m a house-bound fire cracker waiting for a match. But I&#8217;m aware I need to accept what God offers, in whatever form it comes. I have edges in need of smoothing and a will in need of taming. Isaiah 40:4 tells us<i> <\/i>that, &#8220;<i>Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.<\/i>&#8221; If snow is the agent, so be it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4370850\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0979-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/D_vT2fCHqqQ\" 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 Greetings from snow-entrenched Cape Cod! I spoke to someone yesterday who still loves snow, in spite of our current situation. Me? I&#8217;m ready to move on. Weather-enforced &#8220;quiet moments&#8221; in front of the fire no longer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/all-that-sparkles\/\">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-1116","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\/1116","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=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}