{"id":262,"date":"2020-06-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=262"},"modified":"2020-05-31T12:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T16:23:55","slug":"we-would-be-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"We Would Be Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We would be wise to take ourselves out of the equation; this\nidea speaks to the heart of paradox. Considering there is no greater worldly\naspiration than to live and love in the presence of the Lord, then why take\nourselves out of the equation? Sounds counter intuitive not to be part of the\ngreatest aspiration. For me, this calls to mind some common clich\u00e9s, as well as\nthe most profound teachings. At the center of Christianity is Christ Jesus\npraying, pleading, sorrowfully crying and joyfully praising that His will, be\nput aside, and the will of God His Father be done. Simply put, don\u2019t stand in\nyour own light, get out of the way and let the Light shine through. Although\nsimply put, not so simply accomplished, certainly never completed. However, the\nfirst step seems to be, to see yourself as God sees you. Leave your baggage\nbehind, walk away from the tracks which can only take you as far as they go.\nTake what you know and make it what you believe. If I\u2019m not judging myself, it\nwould never occur to me to judge others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would be wise to take ourselves out of the equation; this idea speaks to the heart of paradox. Considering there is no greater worldly aspiration than to live and love in the presence of the Lord, then why take ourselves out of the equation? Sounds counter intuitive not to be part of the greatest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,49,61,60],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-catholic-faith","tag-catholic-spirituality","tag-christian-wisdom","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reflectionsonfaith.net\/reflections\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}