{"id":1822,"date":"2016-06-08T10:05:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/stones\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T14:05:13","slug":"stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sr. Spero<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently a sister wrote about learning to leave well enough alone\u2014learning not to straighten\u00a0the crooked picture. That\u2019s not my bent. My struggle is careless inattention to detail. I\u2019m more\u00a0apt to say: \u201ccrooked picture? what picture?\u201d We are all different, and we all need help.<\/p>\n<p>Scripture calls us \u201cliving stones\u201d (1 Peter 2:5). Some are smooth, others rough. Some are\u00a0perfectly round, others have interesting shapes. We are all needed, and this is what makes\u00a0community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LivingStones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5626935 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LivingStones-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Building stone walls at the Community of Jesus\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" \/><\/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\/ww0a6Qzb2_M\" 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 Recently a sister wrote about learning to leave well enough alone\u2014learning not to straighten\u00a0the crooked picture. That\u2019s not my bent. My struggle is careless inattention to detail. I\u2019m more\u00a0apt to say: \u201ccrooked picture? what picture?\u201d We are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/stones\/\">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-1822","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\/1822","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=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}