{"id":3854,"date":"2018-02-14T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3854"},"modified":"2018-02-17T17:48:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T17:48:16","slug":"joy-in-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3854","title":{"rendered":"Joy in Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3522\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?attachment_id=3522\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3522\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3522\" class=\" wp-image-3522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Kalpana-and-family-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Kalpana-and-family-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Kalpana-and-family-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalpana, brothers and sisters in the Himalayas. We support them.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lent is a time for reflection and for giving things up. But why can&#8217;t it also be a time for joy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This year as part of a Lent Reflection I will be posting about joy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joy can be seen all around us, it is infectious and children share it very easily.<\/p>\n<p><em>But the angel said to them, &#8220;Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy. It is for all the people<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+2&amp;version=NRSV\"> Luke 2, verse 10.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What better news could there be.<\/p>\n<p>Joy, happiness and blessings in abundance.<\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?attachment_id=3753\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3753\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SM-ord.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent is a time for reflection and for giving things up. But why can&#8217;t it also be a time for joy! This year as part of a Lent Reflection I will be posting about joy. &nbsp; Joy can be seen all around us, it is infectious and children share it very easily. But the angel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,125,1],"tags":[84,78,53],"class_list":["post-3854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-goes-walkabout","category-lent","category-uncategorized","tag-church-of-england","tag-faithgoeswalkabout","tag-gayton-group-of-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}