{"id":1547,"date":"2015-07-03T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T07:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/free-and-clear\/"},"modified":"2015-07-03T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T07:00:10","slug":"free-and-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/free-and-clear\/","title":{"rendered":"Free and Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a once popular song called <em>On a Clear Day<\/em>, whose words read in part:<\/p>\n<p>On a clear day, rise and look around you<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;ll see who you are.<br \/>\nYou can hear from far and near<br \/>\nA word you&#8217;ve never heard before.<br \/>\nAnd on a clear day, on a clear day<br \/>\nYou can see forever, and ever (etc.)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all experienced such days, when the sun defines and illumines all within its touch.The beauty and simplicity encourage, renew energy, and lift me from a negative fascination with problems.<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about this and a correlating scripture, 1 Corinthians 13:12,\u00a0 <em>Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything <\/em><em>with perfect clarity.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>To view life clear of judgments, opinions, fluctuating emotions, and past misfortunes is a freedom well worth pursuing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5278723\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCN00421-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/n_v1SevrDVM\" 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 There&#8217;s a once popular song called On a Clear Day, whose words read in part: On a clear day, rise and look around you And you&#8217;ll see who you are. You can hear from far and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/free-and-clear\/\">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-1547","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\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}