{"id":1815,"date":"2016-05-27T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/lemonade-delayed\/"},"modified":"2016-05-27T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T19:51:25","slug":"lemonade-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/lemonade-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemonade Delayed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/lemons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5626843\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/lemons-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"lemons\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>When life hands you lemons, tread water. Presumptive lemonade could be a mistake. When I read the Psalms, I&#8217;m intrigued by the amount of waiting the writer describes. Usually, he&#8217;s made a mess of his life, lost his way, or been defeated in battle. Out of innovative ideas, he hides away and says to God, &#8220;Okay, it&#8217;s your turn. I&#8217;m ready for help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now it isn&#8217;t easy to tread water, in fact, it&#8217;s hard work. Experts tell us to remain upright in a vertical position, head high, breathing slow and regulated, making use of all four limbs at once.\u00a0 We&#8217;re in a state of readiness, prepared for rescue, but not the one in charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSometimes life is just about waiting. Waiting for answers, waiting for direction, waiting for God to gather the pieces and make us whole again.<\/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\/i-tRbjA4BEg\" 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>When life hands you lemons, tread water. Presumptive lemonade could be a mistake. When I read the Psalms, I&#8217;m intrigued by the amount of waiting the writer describes. Usually, he&#8217;s made a mess of his life, lost his way, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/lemonade-delayed\/\">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-1815","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\/1815","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=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}