{"id":1818,"date":"2016-06-01T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-difference-of-a-comma\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T12:57:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:57:28","slug":"the-difference-of-a-comma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-difference-of-a-comma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference of a Comma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sr. Spero<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was checking the title of a book about John Henry Newman, with the same title as his poem which\u00a0became a popular hymn. The three words are<em> Lead, Kindly,<\/em> and <em>Light,<\/em> but there was also a comma, and I\u00a0didn\u2019t know where the comma should go. If it went after <em>Lead<\/em>, the title had one meaning, and if after\u00a0<em>Kindly<\/em>, an entirely different meaning and attitude toward the <em>Light<\/em>, which represents God. I frequently\u00a0go back and forth between these two attitudes myself. If I say \u201cLead Kindly, Light,\u201d it means I have to\u00a0remind God to be kindly, and don\u2019t really trust him. If I say, \u201cLead, Kindly Light,\u201d I\u2019m recognizing him as\u00a0kindly (trustworthy), and I\u2019ll follow him wherever he leads. Sometimes I put the comma in my life in one\u00a0place, and sometimes in another.<\/p>\n<p>I looked up Cardinal Newman\u2019s original title, and shouldn\u2019t have been surprised. He put the comma\u00a0after<em> Lead<\/em>. He trusted God. Now if I could only figure out what the comma represents to me, so I can\u00a0learn to trust him more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blossom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5626868 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blossom-e1464800218879-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Apple blossoms at the Community of Jesus\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\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\/eZ1nJAUa4As\" 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. Spero I was checking the title of a book about John Henry Newman, with the same title as his poem which\u00a0became a popular hymn. The three words are Lead, Kindly, and Light, but there was also a comma, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/the-difference-of-a-comma\/\">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-1818","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\/1818","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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}