{"id":1475,"date":"2005-09-13T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/09\/13\/listening-for-god\/"},"modified":"2005-09-13T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T22:51:00","slug":"listening-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/09\/13\/listening-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening for God"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=Arial size=2>This is only Tuesday, and it&#8217;s already been a  pretty busy week.&nbsp; Due to some circumstances out of my control, Fr. Jamie  Smith (the associate pastor at the parish where I work as youth minister) and I  had to scramble to put together a three-hour program for about sixty-five 6th,  7th, and 8th graders.&nbsp; The event was a big success, but I wasn&#8217;t sure that  we would continue to have it once a month as I had originally promised.&nbsp;  That was mainly because I am already pretty busy and the thought of adding to my  schedule makes me really anxious.&nbsp; Throughout the course of those three  hours though, five or six volunteers stepped forward to say that they would be  more than willing to help me out in the future.&nbsp; It was really cool.&nbsp;  God was using them to speak to me.&nbsp; Their offer will allow me to provide  more opportunities for our parish youth to deepen their faith in  God.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2>Sometimes our idea of what should or shouldn&#8217;t be  happening is contrary to what God is calling for in that particular  situation.&nbsp; I think it&#8217;s really important to listen for God&#8217;s voice.&nbsp;  It&#8217;s likely to come when you are least expecting it.<\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2><\/font>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><font face=Arial size=2>-Shannon<\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">This is only Tuesday, and it&#8217;s already been a pretty busy week.&nbsp; Due to some circumstances out of my control, Fr. Jamie Smith (the associate pastor at the parish where I work as youth minister) and I had to scramble to put together a three-hour program for about sixty-five 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.&nbsp; The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/2005\/09\/13\/listening-for-god\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475","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=1475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddwalkministries.com\/oddblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}