{"id":589,"date":"2014-09-10T03:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/kaleidoscope\/"},"modified":"2014-09-10T03:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:00:37","slug":"kaleidoscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/kaleidoscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaleidoscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Renaissance Girl<\/p>\n<p>I was thinking about God&#8217;s will, and the focus and discipline that it takes to see His vision and follow it no matter what. Focus and discipline are two words I do not say lightly, or with a lot of joy. I am just starting to be willing to believe that they are the avenues to spiritual freedom, although it takes every ounce of my energy to choose them over my desire for ease and independence.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, I had a picture of a kaleidoscope. As if that is what it is to see God&#8217;s will. I have to narrow my scope, cut away the extra little plans I&#8217;m holding on to, and be willing to look through the small little hole. \u00a0Because each explosion of color and design that surprises you on the other side are more than worth it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/kaleidoscope2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4087694\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/kaleidoscope2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"The Community of Jesus\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/hwskxZ4njOE\" 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 Renaissance Girl I was thinking about God&#8217;s will, and the focus and discipline that it takes to see His vision and follow it no matter what. Focus and discipline are two words I do not say lightly, or with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/kaleidoscope\/\">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-589","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\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}