{"id":619,"date":"2014-03-18T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/?p=619"},"modified":"2014-03-18T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T15:13:12","slug":"a-lenten-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"A Lenten Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again from the gifted pen of<br \/>\nSteve Garnaas-Holmes<br \/>\nUnfolding Light<br \/>\nwww.unfoldinglight.net<br \/>\ncomes a poem\/prayer of assurance that seems perfect for Lent as we seek to move more deeply into our relationship with God:<\/p>\n<p>Holy One,<br \/>\nyou will come to me this day.<br \/>\nYou will hide in the little events.<br \/>\nIn the friends and stranger,<br \/>\nin those whom you send me to love,<br \/>\nyou will be present.<br \/>\nIn the feelings and perceptions<br \/>\nthat arise in me you will be whispering.<br \/>\nIn the the low murmurings,<br \/>\nthe leanings of my soul,<br \/>\nyou will be gently nudging me.<br \/>\nIn the light, in the silence,<br \/>\nyou will come to me.<br \/>\nAnd I will be ready<br \/>\nto say yes.<\/p>\n<p>Growing in Faith, says one commentator, is growing in the awareness of where God already is, working in all the moments of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking? Are you ready to see?<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Marie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again from the gifted pen of Steve Garnaas-Holmes Unfolding Light www.unfoldinglight.net comes a poem\/prayer of assurance that seems perfect for Lent as we seek to move more deeply into our relationship with God: Holy One, you will come to me this day. You will hide in the little events. In the friends and stranger, in <a href=\"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/?p=619\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"A Lenten Thought\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}