{"id":252,"date":"2012-11-20T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2012-11-20T13:15:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:15:27","slug":"a-thought-on-the-eve-of-the-presentation-of-the-bvm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/a-thought-on-the-eve-of-the-presentation-of-the-bvm\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thought on the Eve of the Presentation of the BVM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The things which we do wrong and the sins which we commit- although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we justify and pass them lightly by- come back to us with bitterness, when danger makes us think how little we have done to deserve help, and how much to deserve punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Into these clarifying locutions, if we stop the frenetic pace of our meandering lives for just a moment- the still, small voice of an angel can be heard&#8230; &#8220;This is true, O Soul!  But do not despair, for Jesus is here with you- wanting to heal and restore, forgive, cleanse and more!  O Soul- do not despair!  He does not want golden vessels;  He does not want silver vessels;  He wants YIELDED vessels!  Yield and live, O Soul!  The King of Love has paid the toll!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The things which we do wrong and the sins which we commit- although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we justify and pass them lightly by- come back to us with bitterness, when danger makes us think how little we have done to deserve help, and how much to deserve punishment.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/a-thought-on-the-eve-of-the-presentation-of-the-bvm\/\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,161],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-bvm","tag-yielded"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}