{"id":355,"date":"2020-04-27T12:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/e-votional\/e-votional-april-27-2020-by-dr-terry-swicegood\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T12:33:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:33:45","slug":"e-votional-april-27-2020-by-dr-terry-swicegood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/e-votional\/e-votional-april-27-2020-by-dr-terry-swicegood\/","title":{"rendered":"E VOTIONAL APRIL 27 2020 BY DR. TERRY SWICEGOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PANDEMIC REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n<p>What if you thought of it<br \/>\nas the Jews consider the Sabbath\u2014<br \/>\nthe most sacred of times?<br \/>\nCease from travel.<br \/>\nCease from buying and selling.<br \/>\nGive up, just for now, on trying to make the world different than it is.<br \/>\nSing. Pray. Touch only those to whom you commit your life.<br \/>\nCenter down.<br \/>\nAnd when your body has become still,<br \/>\nreach out with your heart.<br \/>\nKnow that we are connected<br \/>\nin ways that are terrifying and beautiful.<br \/>\n(You could hardly deny it now.)<br \/>\nKnow that our lives<br \/>\nare in one another\u2019s hands.<br \/>\n(Surely, that has come clear.)<br \/>\nDo not reach out your hands.<br \/>\nReach out your heart.<br \/>\nReach out your words.<br \/>\nReach out all the tendrils<br \/>\nof compassion that move, invisibly,<br \/>\nwhere we cannot touch.<br \/>\nPromise this world your love&#8211;<br \/>\nfor better or for worse,<br \/>\nin sickness and in health,<br \/>\nso long as we all shall live.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to \u201cThe Love of Jesus\u201d by Mark Hayes; played by Hyunmi Lee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OrVHg168CEM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OrVHg168CEM&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PANDEMIC REFLECTIONS What if you thought of it as the Jews consider the Sabbath\u2014 the most sacred of times? Cease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-votional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoriapresbyterianchurch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}