{"id":230,"date":"2013-12-11T13:03:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T13:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sojourningtogether.org\/?p=230"},"modified":"2013-12-11T13:03:21","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T13:03:21","slug":"lectio-reflection-121113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/lectio-reflection-121113\/","title":{"rendered":"Lectio Reflection 12\/11\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Verse<\/b><br \/>\nEvery person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we\u2019ll surely love the child who was conceived. The reality test on whether or not we love God\u2019s children is this: Do we love God? Do we keep his commands? The proof that we love God comes when we keep his commandments and they are not at all troublesome. (1 John 5:1-3 MSG)<\/p>\n<p><b>My Word or Phrase<\/b><br \/>\nHis commands re not burdensome<\/p>\n<p><b>My Image<\/b><br \/>\nThe holiday season when I bad pies and prepare big meals. This is not a burden because I enjoy showing hospitality in this way. I enjoy seeing people enjoying my gift to them. This is not burdensome to me.<\/p>\n<p><b>My Invitation<\/b><br \/>\nThink about ways that I can love other&#8217;s in practical ways on a more regular basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verse Every person who believes that Jesus is, in fact, the Messiah, is God-begotten. If we love the One who conceives the child, we\u2019ll surely love the child who was conceived. The reality test on whether or not we love God\u2019s children is this: Do we love God? Do we keep his commands? The proof &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/lectio-reflection-121113\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lectio Reflection 12\/11\/13&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectio-divina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZq6-3I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}