{"id":1544,"date":"2015-06-26T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/tools-of-the-trade\/"},"modified":"2015-06-26T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T07:00:14","slug":"tools-of-the-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/tools-of-the-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools of the Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>I have great admiration for those who fix broken things. Carrying a metal box filled with mysterious objects, they arrive prepared for any task. The Psalmist speaks of <em>a broken spirit and a broken and contrite heart<\/em>, sacrifices that God finds acceptable. We&#8217;re also assured the Lord is near the broken hearted and delivers those who are discouraged (some translations say &#8220;crushed in spirit.&#8221;) So then, what&#8217;s in His tool box? I suggest the following:<\/p>\n<p>Hymns of recollection and hope<br \/>\nScriptures that inspire<br \/>\nA small prayer answered<br \/>\nVisual beauty<br \/>\nA moment of solitude<br \/>\nA friendly interaction<br \/>\nA change in direction<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re surrounded by God&#8217;s intervention. He&#8217;s in the repair business, eager to make us whole, and waits for us to recognize His presence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5225824\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0628-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/2ek__V3FNjs\" 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 have great admiration for those who fix broken things. Carrying a metal box filled with mysterious objects, they arrive prepared for any task. The Psalmist speaks of a broken spirit and a broken and contrite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/tools-of-the-trade\/\">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-1544","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\/1544","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=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}