{"id":10076,"date":"2018-08-20T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=10076"},"modified":"2018-08-20T08:18:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:18:45","slug":"woeful-are-we-blessed-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2018\/08\/20\/woeful-are-we-blessed-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Woeful are we; blessed are we."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/woefulblessed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10080\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/woefulblessed.jpg 2400w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/woefulblessed-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/woefulblessed-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/woefulblessed-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/woefulblessed-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/>Woeful are we;<br \/>\nblessed are we.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who value power over relationship;<br \/>\nblessed are we who recognize and value the dignity of the human person.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who strive for human successes in human ways;<br \/>\nblessed are we whose only glory is in the cross.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who project our own angers and insecurities;<br \/>\nblessed are we who are working to remove the plank in our own eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who speak of others as &#8220;they&#8221; and them;&#8221;<br \/>\nblessed are we who speak only of &#8220;us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who assert without facts;<br \/>\nblessed are we who research, then post.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who rely solely on facts;<br \/>\nblessed are we who faith is founded on belief.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who declare that truth isn&#8217;t truth;<br \/>\nblessed are we who know the way, truth, and life.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who distort the truth for dishonorable ends;<br \/>\nblessed are we who recognize even truth sometimes has subtle nuances.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we who declare the world is black and white;<br \/>\nblessed are those who realize this is not always so.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we with only simple solutions to complex problems;<br \/>\nblessed are we who realize &#8220;love&#8221; is often far more complicated than it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Woeful are we;<br \/>\nblessed are we.<br \/>\n<font size=\"-4\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0       <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Orin Johnson, \u00a92018<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Woeful are we; blessed are we. Woeful are we who value power over relationship; blessed are we who recognize and value the dignity of the human person. Woeful are we who strive for human successes in human ways; blessed are we whose only glory is in the cross. Woeful are we who project our own&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2018\/08\/20\/woeful-are-we-blessed-are-we\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,88,91,90,89,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-catholicism","category-jesus","category-jesusjusticejoy","category-joy","category-justice","category-prayer","category-reflection","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10084,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10076\/revisions\/10084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}