{"id":10217,"date":"2019-01-15T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2019-01-15T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T19:14:50","slug":"the-work-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2019\/01\/15\/the-work-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a busy few weeks for me (Orin) right now, yet it is my week for a Jesus-Justice-Joy post. \u00a0In the midst of my busy-ness, occasionally my thoughts turn to why it is I am so busy, with a follow-up question of whether I see in all the things I do a building of God&#8217;s reign, or, if you like, am I going about the Lord&#8217;s work?<\/p>\n<p>This poem, pictured, has been a dear one to me ever since I became aware of it some years back. As we are just two days past the Church&#8217;s celebration of Christmastide, I thought it appropriate to share with you all today. \u00a0May we all take a second to see if we are, in all we do, building a world filled with Jesus, with Justice, and with Joy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10218\" src=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Slide1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Slide1-2.jpg 720w, http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Slide1-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">It&#8217;s a busy few weeks for me (Orin) right now, yet it is my week for a Jesus-Justice-Joy post. \u00a0In the midst of my busy-ness, occasionally my thoughts turn to why it is I am so busy, with a follow-up question of whether I see in all the things I do a building of God&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2019\/01\/15\/the-work-of-christmas\/\">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":[39,30,88,91,90,89,64,12,51,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-christmas","category-holiday","category-jesus","category-jesusjusticejoy","category-joy","category-justice","category-ministry","category-prayer","category-quote","category-reflection","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217","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=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}