{"id":1532,"date":"2015-06-19T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/abide-not-hide\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T07:00:48","slug":"abide-not-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/abide-not-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Abide Not Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>I love when the Holy Spirit brings new understanding to a familiar scripture. This week, I found inspiration in words from Psalm 11 &#8212;<em>\u00a0In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me, &#8220;Flee like a bird to your mountain. For look, the wicked bend their bows; they set their arrows against the strings.&#8221;<\/em> I think of my many mountains. Some are actual objects, like ice cream in the freezer, a good book, or newspaper where the news is worse than my own. But more often, it&#8217;s an inward mountain of my own construction. When I&#8217;m anxious, uncomfortable, hurt, or ashamed, I&#8217;m adept at remaining physically present, but emotionally far away. It takes courage to say (and mean it), &#8220;In the Lord I take refuge.&#8221; It requires standing firm while the enemy within tells you it&#8217;s safer to head for the shadows. Why choose a lonely place, when life and healing are a simple prayer away?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5173523\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/FullSizeRender-41-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/GyE5-Hb_gEI\" 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 love when the Holy Spirit brings new understanding to a familiar scripture. This week, I found inspiration in words from Psalm 11 &#8212;\u00a0In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/abide-not-hide\/\">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-1532","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\/1532","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=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}