{"id":1271,"date":"2015-03-29T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/unburdenedand-that-is-why-i-think-it-farbetter-than-anything-that-a-manshoul\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T14:00:02","slug":"unburdenedand-that-is-why-i-think-it-farbetter-than-anything-that-a-manshoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/unburdenedand-that-is-why-i-think-it-farbetter-than-anything-that-a-manshoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Unburdened:\nAnd that is why I think it far\nbetter than anything that a man\nshoul&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unburdened:<br \/> And that is why I think it far<br \/> better than anything that a man<br \/> should abandon himself wholly to God,<br \/> whatever it may be that God desires<br \/> to impose on him\u2014contempt or heavy labor<br \/> or any manner of hardship\u2014so long<br \/> as he accepts it joyfully, in gratitude, <br \/> and gives himself to be led solely by God.<br \/> Just so, if you tilt your head to learn from God<br \/> and gladly, and thereby follow Him,<br \/> all will be well with you.<br \/> With such a disposition, you<br \/> can easily accept honors and ease. <br \/> Should hardships and disgrace arrive,<br \/> you will bear them also, and be<br \/> oddly pleased to bear them.<br \/> \u2014Poem by Scott Cairns<\/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>Unburdened: And that is why I think it far better than anything that a man should abandon himself wholly to God, whatever it may be that God desires to impose on him\u2014contempt or heavy labor or any manner of hardship\u2014so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/unburdenedand-that-is-why-i-think-it-farbetter-than-anything-that-a-manshoul\/\">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-1271","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\/1271","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=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}