{"id":1593,"date":"2009-06-19T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2009-06-19T11:28:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T18:28:11","slug":"reflective-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/reflective-snippets\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflective Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of my <a href='http:\/\/www.rbc.org\/devotionals\/our-daily-bread\/2009\/03\/19\/devotion.aspx'>print reading<\/a> earlier this morning:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; background:pink; padding:10px; width:85%\"><i>Love thyself last. Look near, behold thy duty<br \/>\nTo those who walk beside thee down life\u2019s road.<br \/>\nMake glad their days by little acts of beauty<br \/>\nAnd help them bear the burden of earth\u2019s load.<\/i> \u2014Wilcox<\/div>\n<p>And from my online reading:<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;I\u2019m holding one more broken piece from the edifice of pride I\u2019ve tended around my ego&#8230;.&#8221;<\/b> &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.worldmag.com\/2009\/06\/19\/second-chances-for-fathers\/\">Tony Woodlief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;The mistake he sometimes made was in attempting to mandate others to be like him&#8230;.&#8221;<\/b> &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/articles\/15541\">Marvin Olasky<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Came away grateful despite all his sadness and torments&#8230;.&#8221;<\/b> (Olasky still writing about Calvin)<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;Uh. . . what exactly <i>does<\/i> it mean if an oven is self-cleaning?&#8221;<\/b> &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/dorcassmucker.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/raising-boys-part-2.html\">Matt Smucker<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0 auto; background:pink; padding:10px; width:85%\">I think people of peace often feel that they are not useful. I\u2019m sure that people within the conflict often suspect that those attempting to be peacemakers don\u2019t fully understand the conflict. When peace is always on your mind, when it is the thing you\u2019re striving for, can you truly understand the language of those who are prolonging the conflict? &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/canadianmennonite.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/19\/the-translator-who-knows-neither-language\/\">Will Loewen<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What has you reflecting?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of my print reading earlier this morning: Love thyself last. Look near, behold thy duty To those who walk beside thee down life\u2019s road. Make glad their days by little acts of beauty And help them bear the burden of earth\u2019s load. \u2014Wilcox And from my online reading: &#8220;I\u2019m holding one more &#8230; <a title=\"Reflective Snippets\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2009\/reflective-snippets\/\" aria-label=\"More on Reflective Snippets\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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":[12,534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-todays-thought"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-pH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","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=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}