{"id":15753,"date":"2025-05-20T19:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T00:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15753"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:16:57","slug":"the-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15753\/the-ordinary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Good Morning Pastor John!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I loved Lee Ann&#8217;s journey entry she shared. (<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15747\/my-journal\/\">https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15747\/my-journal\/<\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Learning to live in the ordinary has been a big theme around our house.\u00a0\u00a0I have recently been trying to become more organized in my day and help my family efficiently make use of time in the evenings.\u00a0\u00a0Last night was one of those ordinary nights around the house.\u00a0\u00a0After housework, Allison and I turned on the YouTube and listening to your father&#8217;s testimony play in the background while coloring.\u00a0\u00a0The Spirit had really impressed on me how much she is listening lately.\u00a0\u00a0How even just having something playing in the background while doing tasks is still feeding her little heart.\u00a0\u00a0Before bed,\u00a0Alex and I decided to start Hebrews.\u00a0\u00a0When I closed my Bible app,\u00a0I realized something.\u00a0\u00a0We had gotten all of our house to-do&#8217;s done, was able to have quality time together, and was still getting to bed early.\u00a0\u00a0By keeping our minds on Jesus,\u00a0even if it&#8217;s listening to our music, made all of us more efficient.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m convinced Jesus has a totally different clock than our 24 hours in a day.\u00a0\u00a0I love how easy Jesus makes life feel.\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s in the little things.\u00a0\u00a0It feels good to lay your head on your pillow and know you did exactly what Jesus had for you that day.\u00a0\u00a0Some would call us boring, but I call it simple living.\u00a0\u00a0Tomorrow,\u00a0Jesus may have something else in store.\u00a0\u00a0An experience or lesson.\u00a0\u00a0But by taking care of today, our hearts are ready when it comes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Margo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Comments welcome:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1925344857926644199\">https:\/\/x.com\/WitnessofSpirit\/status\/1925344857926644199<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Pastor John! I loved Lee Ann&#8217;s journey entry she shared. (https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15747\/my-journal\/) Learning to live in the ordinary has been a big theme around our house.\u00a0\u00a0I have recently been trying to become more organized in my day and help my family efficiently make use of time in the evenings.\u00a0\u00a0Last night was one of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15755,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions\/15755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}