{"id":1845,"date":"2016-07-18T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/picking\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T10:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:17:46","slug":"picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/picking\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sr. Spero<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I picked some zucchini from the garden this morning. As I decided which squash to pick and which to let\u00a0grow for another day, I realized that God is the great gardener. Sometimes it\u2019s best to pick zucchini\u00a0small for the best flavor. But sometimes a larger squash is better for soup or bread. And sometimes it\u2019s\u00a0best not to pick one at all, so the seeds can mature for the next crop. For me, it\u2019s a matter of trust. Do I\u00a0trust God enough to believe that when I\u2019m picked I\u2019m ready? Or if I\u2019m not picked, do I trust that he\u00a0might have some other plan in mind?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zucchini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5627114 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zucchini-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Zucchini\" 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\/JLVqZxsE9y8\" 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 picked some zucchini from the garden this morning. As I decided which squash to pick and which to let\u00a0grow for another day, I realized that God is the great gardener. Sometimes it\u2019s best to pick zucchini\u00a0small &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/picking\/\">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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","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=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}