{"id":956,"date":"2012-12-19T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=956"},"modified":"2012-12-19T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T14:14:24","slug":"advent-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Advent The Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"candles advent\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/candles_advent.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"183\" \/><\/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<p>\nAll out of darkness we have light<br \/>\nWhich made the angels sing that night<br \/>\nGlory to God and peace to men<br \/>\nNow and for evermore. Amen<\/p>\n<p>Messages! John the Baptist to the angels visiting the shepherds. <br \/>\nImportant messages, probably the most important message in the world!!<\/p>\n<p>\nBut a message from whom?<br \/>\nWho is it that is calling out to us in the time of darkness, nights getting longer and days getting shorter, it&#8217;s getting closer and closer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Guiding, directing, showing the way, bit like pathways and life too.<\/p>\n<p>\nHow often do we decide that the path is not the right one for us, too long? Too stony or swampy? Too much for the time we have today?<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the path that God has set before us is never too long, there is never a time to give up on the work and the life that we have before us.<\/p>\n<p>When you feel yourself starting to give in to the comfy cosy option then get back to the path ahead<\/p>\n<p><em>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Curate Gayton group of parishes<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; All out of darkness we have light Which made the angels sing that night Glory to God and peace to men Now and for evermore. Amen Messages! John the Baptist to the angels visiting the shepherds. Important messages, probably the most important message in the world!! But a message [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-seasons","category-theological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","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=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}