{"id":2764,"date":"2012-12-20T22:11:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T22:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2012-12-20T22:11:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T22:11:50","slug":"damien-the-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/2764\/damien-the-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien &#8211; &#8220;The cliff&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Hey,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I had the thought last night that if the economy (and everything else?) is going over a cliff then we must need to get somewhere quickly.\u00a0 A cliff is really a short-cut.\u00a0 I have spent much of my life thinking about things going bad and the life we are used to disappearing, and I&#8217;m really kind of tired of doing that.\u00a0 It is all bad out there, and getting worse,\u00a0 and our times are probably going to get tough, but THIS truth and life are good and I&#8217;m glad we have this space of time with such ease of life to do our work.\u00a0 I just feel like staying focused on that and I believe the rest will be taken care of to provide what we need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Damien<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Yes, that is my feeling, too. \u00a0Taking care of ourselves is not possible in a world like this. \u00a0That is our heavenly Father&#8217;s job. \u00a0Our part is to do the work he has given us to do, and I want us to focus on that. \u00a0If we do that well, and please God, He will keep us covered in the shadow of with His mighty wings. \u00a0As Preacher Clark used to say, If we are doing the work, God will be the loser if something happens to cause us to stop. \u00a0Still, we know that &#8220;the night is coming when no man can work.&#8221; \u00a0So, let&#8217;s get to it while we still can.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>\u00a0jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I had the thought last night that if the economy (and everything else?) is going over a cliff then we must need to get somewhere quickly.\u00a0 A cliff is really a short-cut.\u00a0 I have spent much of my life thinking about things going bad and the life we are used to disappearing, and I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764"}],"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=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}