{"id":768,"date":"2015-03-22T21:33:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T06:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=768"},"modified":"2015-03-23T01:45:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T10:45:10","slug":"mar-22-a-challenge-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Mar. 22 &#8211; A Challenge Received"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Mar. 22 &#8211; A Challenge Received\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=768\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-769\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fish.jpg\" alt=\"fish\" width=\"254\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the worship service today the pastor reminded us that Easter is quickly approaching.\u00a0 She issued the congregation the challenge to make Holy Week (The days from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday), a spiritually meaningful time by increasing our focus on God and the spiritual disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I chose the graphic above because it illustrates how difficult change and be even when they change we are trying to make is beneficial.\u00a0 As I sat in the pew and contemplated what I could do personally to make this time meaningful ideas would come to my mind and then I would immediately realize I probably would not be able to make them work for one reason or another.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This blog entry does not offer an answer.\u00a0 It just continues to put the challenge I received in worship in front of the readers of this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the worship service today the pastor reminded us that Easter is quickly approaching.\u00a0 She issued the congregation the challenge to make Holy Week (The days from Palm Sunday through Easter Sunday), a spiritually meaningful time by increasing our focus on God and the spiritual disciplines. &nbsp; I chose the graphic above because it illustrates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=768\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mar. 22 &#8211; A Challenge Received<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}