{"id":382,"date":"2009-06-15T20:58:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=382"},"modified":"2009-06-15T20:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:58:22","slug":"blog-on-going-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/382\/blog-on-going-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog On Going Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/going-nowhere.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">***<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The BLOG, &#8220;Going Nowhere&#8221;, reminds me of when I received the baptism; for weeks I was still reeling with joy and a peace that I had never felt before, and this phrase came to me: \u00a0<strong>&#8220;Thank you God for giving me everything I never wanted&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">And it&#8217;s so TRUE!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I could <em>finally<\/em> REST in Jesus, . . . and thanks to you and brother Gary I had the roots and the foundation of knowledge that has kept me sane in this insane world, relatively steady in spite of being alone in California with only Margaret to fellowship with, and satisfied in Christ&#8212;never desiring to seek out any church to &#8220;get involved&#8221; with. \u00a0 On Sundays, you know, I go hiking up into the woods with Jesus, while the parking lot below fills up with folks going to the dead church services that I once attended, long ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I must admit, I have had a few urges with the &#8220;ambition&#8221; thing, however, thinking that I ought to be doing &#8220;something&#8221; with my life to make an impact in this world. \u00a0But the Lord has kept me under His wing, humble and conservative in my ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thanks for writing such a LONG blog, John; articulate and eloquent as usual. \u00a0I loved it. \u00a0It was rich, nutritious food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Comforting to my soul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I&#8217;m glad to hear that brother Vince was affected deeply by your writing too.!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Brad<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*** http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/going-nowhere.html *** The BLOG, &#8220;Going Nowhere&#8221;, reminds me of when I received the baptism; for weeks I was still reeling with joy and a peace that I had never felt before, and this phrase came to me: \u00a0&#8220;Thank you God for giving me everything I never wanted&#8221; And it&#8217;s so TRUE!! I could finally [&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-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"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=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}