{"id":1967,"date":"2014-03-23T08:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2014-03-23T08:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T15:13:41","slug":"scratch-you-owe-me-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2014\/scratch-you-owe-me-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch the &#8220;You Owe Me an Apology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading the Christian Light Sunday School lesson Scripture selection in Spanish and eventually got to Romans 13:8.<\/p>\n<p>This part of the verse impressed me again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No deb\u00e1is a nadie nada, sino el amaros unos a otros.<\/p>\n<p>Owe no one anything, except to love each other. (ESV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That eventually led me to two alternate (opposed, really) approaches&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:125px; font-family:helvetica, verdana, arial, 'sans serif'\">&#8220;You owe me an apology.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I owe you love.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>When I&#8217;m inclined to <em>be aware of the apology<\/em> another owes me (and you might be one of my debtors), better I <strong>be aware of the love<\/strong> I owe another (and I might be your debtor!).<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s good for me to remember after&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1em\">\n<li>last night.<\/li>\n<li>that deleted hot-off-griddle Facebook comment (that I got anyway because Facebook emailed it to me as soon as it was posted).<\/li>\n<li>the stunningly disrespectful text fired at me from far away several years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instead of being focused on an apology owed me, <strong>let me be consumed by the love I owe another<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what I mean?<\/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>What is <em>your<\/em> debt, Mark?!<!-- 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37],"tags":[64,99,30,31],"class_list":{"0":"post-1967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-romans","7":"tag-peace","8":"tag-relationships","9":"tag-seek-wisdom","10":"tag-way-of-righteousness","11":"h-entry","12":"hentry","13":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-vJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}