{"id":472,"date":"2014-07-03T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/common-sense\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:00:47","slug":"common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Melodious Monk<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was reading about Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, a 20th century Italian priest from a farming town in southern Italy, more well known as Padre Pio. He gave this advice: &#8220;<em>Whatever can I say in order to stop the multitude of your thoughts? Don&#8217;t try, excessively, to heal your heart, as your efforts would only make it more infirm. Don&#8217;t make too great an effort to overcome your temptations, as this violence would only make them stronger. Despise them and don&#8217;t dwell on them too much.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I smiled while reading this, as it reminded me of conversations I frequently have with one of the long standing brothers at our community. He often\u00a0tells me to try not\u00a0thinking so much. Because put simply, &#8220;How do you expect to hear God&#8217;s voice with so many thoughts and voices of your own to drown His out? It&#8217;s just common sense!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/80l7p44g40g1tthgg34ewzoc3a.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rossa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4087099\" src=\"http:\/\/80l7p44g40g1tthgg34ewzoc3a.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rossa-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"rossa\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/J4UXRODC21E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/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 Melodious Monk This morning I was reading about Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, a 20th century Italian priest from a farming town in southern Italy, more well known as Padre Pio. He gave this advice: &#8220;Whatever can I say in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/common-sense\/\">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-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}