{"id":1460,"date":"2012-03-14T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2012-03-18T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:52:42","slug":"1460","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"(Psalm 127) Personal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>St. Irenaeus of Lyons wrote at the end of the second century, &#8220;If we can believe that Jesus was both divine and human, we have no problem believing the bread is his divine body and the wine is his divine blood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drawing close is not like becoming proficient at chess. It is not simply about memorizing the answers to various difficult questions, as in &#8220;if he moves his bishop here, I pin it this way&#8221;. It is not like that. It is about a personal relationship with God. <\/p>\n<p>Personal. With God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain that build it. St. Irenaeus of Lyons wrote at the end of the second century, &#8220;If we can believe that Jesus was both divine and human, we have no problem believing the bread is his divine body and the wine is his divine blood.&#8221; Drawing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1460\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Psalm 127) Personal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}