{"id":225,"date":"2014-07-18T22:18:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T07:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=225"},"modified":"2014-07-19T14:20:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T23:20:25","slug":"july-18-children-in-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"July 18 – Children in the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tonight I walked my dog several times. \u00a0On our first walk we encountered two children who were arguing as they were swinging. \u00a0Two hours later we saw the same children having the time of their life with no hint of tension between them. \u00a0They had worked out their issue and moved forward in relationship with and to each other.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like many of you too often we see people who are angry and they never find a way to let go of that anger. \u00a0Cancer Treatment Centers of America have as part of their treatment sessions devoted to forgiveness because they see forgiveness has a direct relationship to how well our bodies heal. \u00a0I find that profound!<\/p>\n

This week a local man was arrested in our local Walmart for having a gun concealed in a shopping bag and acting in unusual ways to enough of a degree that it caught the attention of store security staff. \u00a0The police came and hauled him away before anyone was injured. \u00a0We were blessed not to become the next location of a gun shooting.<\/p>\n

My prayer for our society is that through whatever mechanism it takes we learn to forgive and leave behind weapons of war as we journey through life. \u00a0If young children can do it, surely we adults have the capability. \u00a0All it takes is desire and commitment. \u00a0The question is: “Will we rise up and meet the challenge?” \u00a0Pray we do!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tonight I walked my dog several times. \u00a0On our first walk we encountered two children who were arguing as they were swinging. \u00a0Two hours later we saw the same children having the time of their life with no hint of tension between them. \u00a0They had worked out their issue and moved forward in relationship with … Continue reading July 18 – Children in the Neighborhood<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}