{"id":1505,"date":"2009-04-04T08:36:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2009-04-04T08:36:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:36:33","slug":"of-beauty-and-ashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/of-beauty-and-ashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Beauty and Ashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey, I just noticed I didn’t change the time for this blog last month! So since the official time change, my posts have been showing two hours earlier than they should have been. What?! I must have adjusted something wrong longer ago. Hang on a bit…I gotta fix that…thanks.<\/p>\n

Well, of beauty and ashes…<\/p>\n

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This morning while puttering around getting my first dose of Nescafé Clásico, I noticed this that I missed yesterday:<\/p>\n

\"Beauty<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Wow! It’s too easy to focus on the ashes of Mexico Missionary plans and EP Teacher visions and Perfect Parenthood mirages. I guess to focus on ashes deprives of the pleasure of enjoying the beauty.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I also thought of this book:<\/p>\n

\"Beauty<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

And this verse from God (found in Isaiah 61:3)….<\/p>\n\n\n
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Thank you, Lord, for beauty for ashes!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey, I just noticed I didn’t change the time for this blog last month! So since the official time change, my posts have been showing two hours earlier than they should have been. What?! I must have adjusted something wrong longer ago. Hang on a bit…I gotta fix that…thanks. Well, of beauty and ashes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,704],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-thankful","tag-encouragement"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-oh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}