{"id":1720,"date":"2016-04-19T10:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/more-than-cliche-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-19T10:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:07:46","slug":"more-than-cliche-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/more-than-cliche-2\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than Clich\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><em>By Sr. Nun Other<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>I wish that I could learn to &#8220;leave well enough alone.&#8221; It&#8217;s a beautiful thing for those who can do it. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not one of them. I&#8217;m the type that must add one more, adjust <i>just a little<\/i>, and pull the thread that unravels the sleeve. Let&#8217;s just say I&#8217;ve ruined more than I&#8217;ve improved. What to do with me? How do I transform my compulsion to make everything okay?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Apostle Paul put it this way: <i>Don&#8217;t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God&#8217;s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand.\u00a0 Philippians 4:6-7<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/div>\n<p>And may I add, if you&#8217;re like me, say to thyself, &#8220;DON&#8217;T TOUCH THE CROOKED PICTURE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/unravelling_1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5626593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5626593 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/unravelling_1-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"unravelling_1\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of cityexile dot wordpress dot com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/K71ueBaizEA\" 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 wish that I could learn to &#8220;leave well enough alone.&#8221; It&#8217;s a beautiful thing for those who can do it. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m not one of them. I&#8217;m the type that must add one more, adjust &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/more-than-cliche-2\/\">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-1720","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\/1720","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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}