{"id":29,"date":"2007-03-04T19:51:26","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T23:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/?p=29"},"modified":"2007-03-04T19:51:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T23:51:26","slug":"quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/04\/quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><small><br \/>\n<strong>Verse of the Day<\/strong><\/small><br \/>\n<small>You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. (<em>Psalm 85:2, <acronym title=\"English Standard Version\">ESV<\/acronym><\/em>)<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a pleasant afternoon, full of quiet and reflection.  I got home from the Fellows Initiative retreat about 1:30 PM, and I&#8217;m still sifting through all that was talked about there.  It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve really had time to sit down and think.  I make myself so busy with things that ultimately don&#8217;t seem to matter.  I worry a lot about things that have less value than I put into them.  I dull the edge of the creative streak God has instilled within me.  I&#8217;m still trying to get my head aroud the things that really matter, realign the priorities in my life to coincide with the things I profess to be true.  It&#8217;s no easy feat, and it won&#8217;t happen overnight, I&#8217;m sure.  One thing this weekend really reaffirmed for me was the strength of the friendships that have fallen out of my experiences with the Fellows Program.  A lot of wise council, affirmation, and correction has resulted from the 12 other individuals I chose to spend a year with and those that committed themselves to help us grow.  I wouldn&#8217;t give it up for the world; It&#8217;s become so apparent to me how God puts us places for a reason.  I don&#8217;t know what I would do without these guys, these brothers, sisters, teachers and friends.  It gives me hope.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a work in progress, a traveler on the road of the already-but-not-yet.  There are many miles to go, and I&#8217;m often not sure exactly how I&#8217;ll make it or what it will look like, but what I <em>do<\/em> know is tied up in the that passage from the Psalms.  So often I forget it or sweep it under the rug in the midst of my business, but it stays the same.  I&#8217;m going to be ok.  It&#8217;s all going to be ok, and I can sleep at night with the knowledge that while there will be valleys amidst the mountains, I&#8217;m going to be fine.  For the first time in a long time, I feel covered.  It&#8217;s refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>Our lives are played out between the bookends of Love and Thunder, and God is found equally amidst both, constant and true.<\/p>\n<p>Come, love.<\/p>\n<p>Come, thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verse of the Day You forgave the iniquity of your people; you covered all their sin. (Psalm 85:2, ESV) I&#8217;ve had a pleasant afternoon, full of quiet and reflection. I got home from the Fellows Initiative retreat about 1:30 PM, and I&#8217;m still sifting through all that was talked about there. It&#8217;s been a while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-life","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}