{"id":1767,"date":"2012-06-13T08:18:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2012-06-15T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:14:50","slug":"joel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"(Joel 2) Against the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cNow, therefore,\u201d says the Lord, \u201cTurn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.\u201d So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God,\u00a0 for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turn to Me with all your heart.&#8221; It seems to me\u00a0I need help even to do that. Repentance means honesty before God. Heart-felt honesty. Nothing in my hand I bring.<\/p>\n<p>He is everything.\u00a0 Everything we should be.\u00a0 Everything we need Him to be. Gracious and merciful.\u00a0 Of great kindness.<\/p>\n<p>To repent means to turn, but it more than that.\u00a0 Repentance is not a single event, a one-time alignment.\u00a0 Repentance is more like walking against the\u00a0wind.\u00a0 It requires continuous effort to advance.\u00a0 Help me, O God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNow, therefore,\u201d says the Lord, \u201cTurn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.\u201d So rend your heart, and not your garments; return to the Lord your God,\u00a0 for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness; and He relents from doing harm. &#8220;Turn to Me &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Joel 2) Against the wind&#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\/1767"}],"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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}