{"id":1413,"date":"2015-05-06T03:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-need-to-stretch-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4852965\/"},"modified":"2015-05-06T03:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T07:01:16","slug":"a-need-to-stretch-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4852965","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-need-to-stretch-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4852965\/","title":{"rendered":"A Need to Stretch http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/?p=4852965"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Need to Stretch <a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/%3Fp%3D4852965#amp;h=nAQESdhDT#amp;s=1\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/?p=4852965<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/a-need-to-stretch\/#amp;h=bAQG-kWgu#amp;s=1\" title=\"\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net\/safe_image.php?d=AQDu5oRGFEF-7VLZ#amp;w=158#amp;h=158#amp;url=http%3A\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/stretch-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/a-need-to-stretch\/%3Ffb_ref%3DDefault%26fb_source%3Dmessage#amp;h=pAQHr3PMg#amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A Need to Stretch | The Community of Jesus<\/a><br \/>www.communityofjesus.org<br \/>By Melodious Monk I\u2019m too small to understand much about God.  Perhaps this is why I\u2019m drawn to ponder over a sermon from the 14th century.  Father John Tauler was a Dominican priest who taught that the way to union or friendship with God was through detachment from earthly matters. He said, \u201cTo be guided by one\u2019s own light and not by God\u2019s is the chief cause of our not attaining to union with God. [  340 more words. ]<\/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>A Need to Stretch http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/?p=4852965 A Need to Stretch | The Community of Jesuswww.communityofjesus.orgBy Melodious Monk I\u2019m too small to understand much about God. Perhaps this is why I\u2019m drawn to ponder over a sermon from the 14th century. Father &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-need-to-stretch-httpwww-communityofjesus-orgp4852965\/\">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-1413","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\/1413","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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}