{"id":328,"date":"2013-12-24T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2013-12-24T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T14:46:13","slug":"good-news-afresh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/good-news-afresh\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News Afresh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blogcandle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-329\" alt=\"blogcandle\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/blogcandle.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>We all approach the December 25th celebration with different levels of expectation. \u00a0Our hopes at Christmas are always conditioned by past experiences. But what if you had no expectations and were totally surprised? In Matthew 1:20 Joseph is informed by an angel that Mary will bear the long awaited Savior of Isaiah 7:14 \u00a0What astounding and unexpected news! \u00a0We are too familiar with this announcement. \u00a0It would be good for all of us to step back and spend some time reflecting on what Joseph might have thought. Away from all the pandemonium of the season, his experience and response needs to be revisited. \u00a0In silence let us reflect on this good news afresh.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\":vp\" 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>We all approach the December 25th celebration with different levels of expectation. \u00a0Our hopes at Christmas are always conditioned by past experiences. But what if you had no expectations and were totally surprised? In Matthew 1:20 Joseph is informed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/good-news-afresh\/\">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-328","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\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}