{"id":541,"date":"2008-04-11T03:38:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=541"},"modified":"2008-04-11T03:40:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:40:12","slug":"correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Reading:<\/font>
\nPsalm 141<\/font>
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I don’t like to give correction. Neither do I enjoy receiving correction. But if I understand correction to be the act of setting in the correct way, why not?<\/p>\n

Well, that’s not what I started out to post this morning. Check this out:<\/p>\n

“Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities”<\/font><\/b> (5).<\/p>\n

I know I should accept and be grateful for any “setting in the correct way” I receive. I know I should always prefer to be corrected instead of being left in the wrong way — no matter who does the correcting, or how, or why.<\/p>\n

But I would much rather have it come from a righteous person. I would much rather be corrected kindly, gentle, considerately.<\/p>\n

Even more importantly, let me be that way when I correct someone else!<\/b><\/p>\n

Though I need to hurt (even deeply) in the process of correcting, may I do it with kindness and carefulness. And with healing (as with an excellent oil).<\/p>\n

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from Psalm 141:2<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

A little bit more from Psalm 141:<\/b> My Eyes Are on God<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading: Psalm 141 I don’t like to give correction. Neither do I enjoy receiving correction. But if I understand correction to be the act of setting in the correct way, why not? Well, that’s not what I started out to post this morning. Check this out: “Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-8J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}