{"id":4144,"date":"2019-02-17T16:45:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2019-02-17T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:45:32","slug":"signs-of-hope-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Hope &#038; Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4145\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daffs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daffs.jpg 544w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daffs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/strong>Bless You \u2013 That\u2019s my line!<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Blessings, God Bless You, Blessed are the poor, the hungry, those who mourn, and those who are hated because of their faith\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does it mean, blessings, blessed, bless you? Is it really a sign of hope, when hope is needed? Like the first daffodils in Spring, blessings for us all at the end of winter, we hope!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seems that many people use the term, \u2018Bless\u2019, \u2018bless you, bless him, and bless her\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I find it hard when people say that as I think what do they mean?<\/p>\n<p>So, when people say to me \u2018Oh, bless you,\u2019 I often reply, \u2018that\u2019s my line!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>I must admit I deviated quite a bit from my sermon on the Beatitudes today, it seemed that hope was what was needed.<\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3966\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sue-ord-July-112x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bless You \u2013 That\u2019s my line! Blessings, God Bless You, Blessed are the poor, the hungry, those who mourn, and those who are hated because of their faith\u2026 What does it mean, blessings, blessed, bless you? Is it really a sign of hope, when hope is needed? Like the first daffodils in Spring, blessings for [&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],"tags":[84,52,53,39],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-goes-walkabout","tag-church-of-england","tag-faith-goes-walkabout-2","tag-gayton-group-of-parishes","tag-norwich-diocese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","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=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}