{"id":320,"date":"2013-12-18T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T15:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=320"},"modified":"2013-12-18T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T15:10:13","slug":"bobs-wednesday-blog-finding-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bobs-wednesday-blog-finding-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob&#8217;s Wednesday Blog \u2013 Finding God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-321\" alt=\"chick\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/chick.jpg\" width=\"219\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>Having grown up as a baby boomer, I have become accustomed to yearning for things on a grand scale. \u00a0I am drawn to large fireworks displays or Super Bowl\u00a0events or parades down 5th Ave in the &#8220;Big Apple&#8221; of New York City. \u00a0But recently I have been noticing small things. \u00a0I am finding God in an unexpected &#8220;thank you&#8221; or or a small gesture of kindness or an unexpected\u00a0coincidence where I run into someone I really wanted to talk to. \u00a0To see God in little things that formerly went unnoticed is a new twist for me. But, as Micah foretold it, &#8220;But you, Bethlehem&#8230;though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will be a ruler over Israel&#8230;&#8221; {Micah 5:2} \u00a0Be open to the small events of daily life. \u00a0They are God&#8217;s drawing near to us too!<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\":uo\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" data-tooltip=\"Show trimmed content\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/1\/images\/cleardot.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having grown up as a baby boomer, I have become accustomed to yearning for things on a grand scale. \u00a0I am drawn to large fireworks displays or Super Bowl\u00a0events or parades down 5th Ave in the &#8220;Big Apple&#8221; of New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/bobs-wednesday-blog-finding-god\/\">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":"open","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-320","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\/320","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=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}