{"id":7019,"date":"2016-02-25T22:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T22:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2016-02-25T22:03:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T22:03:11","slug":"sweet-school-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/7019\/sweet-school-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet School Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">On our daily lesson plan for school, I always leave a section titled\u00a0\u201cBible\u201d.\u00a0 I leave it blank unless the Lord gives me something in particular to talk about with the kids ahead of time.\u00a0 Sometimes, it stays blank.\u00a0 I love not feeling\u00a0\u201cobligated\u201d to have something written down.\u00a0 Most of the time, though, at the end of our day, I can go back and fill in something that we discussed.\u00a0 It is always unexpected, and\u00a0I usually\u00a0never remember how we got there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Today was so sweet. We wound up talking about how Jesus gives us pleasures in this life, whatever it is that\u00a0<em>you<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>like, just so that\u00a0we can understand what\u00a0\u201cpleasures forevermore\u201d means&#8211;just to get the idea.\u00a0 We talked about loving peace and how this flesh doesn\u2019t, but Jesus does.\u00a0 We talked about the waterfall and the little bird sitting peacefully by it.\u00a0 We\u00a0talked about whether we wanted to be like the waterfall or the bird.\u00a0 \u00a0If we don\u2019t love peace, we\u2019ll have\u00a0<em>that<\/em>, forever.\u00a0 If we love peace, we\u2019ll have\u00a0<em>that<\/em>, forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Then\u00a0we talked about if we do make it there, where there are\u00a0\u201cpleasures forevermore\u201d, how we\u2019ll see\u00a0the people that\u00a0we love who have gone on before\u00a0us and made it there.\u00a0 I\u2019m excited to hope to see my grandma again.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing Preacher Clark and Uncle Joe.\u00a0 It brings tears to my eyes to think of\u00a0meeting King David.\u00a0 I have fellowship with him.\u00a0 That brought up the whole story of David, Bathsheba and Uriah.\u00a0 It was so good having the kids\u00a0put themselves into the story.\u00a0 Would\u00a0they have forgiven David?\u00a0 Would they have\u00a0been happy Absalom was dead?\u00a0 After that, David spent the rest of his life teaching Solomon what he had learned.\u00a0 It was a wonderful lesson for all of us in the mercy and love of God.\u00a0 What sweet, sweet feelings from Jesus this morning!\u00a0 I love it when he does that.\u00a0 My mouth just waters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Last night was wonderful, and\u00a0Jesus gave me something unexpected again today to put in my\u00a0\u201cBible\u201d section. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Cris<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, On our daily lesson plan for school, I always leave a section titled\u00a0\u201cBible\u201d.\u00a0 I leave it blank unless the Lord gives me something in particular to talk about with the kids ahead of time.\u00a0 Sometimes, it stays blank.\u00a0 I love not feeling\u00a0\u201cobligated\u201d to have something written down.\u00a0 Most of the time, though, at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019"}],"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=7019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}