{"id":2144,"date":"2021-02-11T11:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2021-02-11T11:45:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:45:25","slug":"still-icy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/02\/11\/still-icy\/","title":{"rendered":"Still icy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0036.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0036.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0036-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0036-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"628\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0037-1024x628.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0037-1024x628.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0037-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0037-768x471.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/DSC_0037.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; though the weather&#8217;s fair, feeling if anything rather more chilly than the previous few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;You just can&#8217;t see it, can you?&#8221; Reading from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=69\" target=\"_blank\">the Lectionary<\/a> in 2 Corinthians, we see how that is (in part) the writer&#8217;s response to people who don&#8217;t believe what he believes. It seems a little unsatisfactory, and we know from other letters and from the Acts, how Paul (if it was he) was eager to argue the case for Christ in every setting. But &#8220;you just don&#8217;t see it&#8221; is often how we feel, about someone who just hasn&#8217;t &#8216;got&#8217; the change of mindset needed to follow the Christ of Love. At the same time, Christians need to be eager to &#8216;see it&#8217; and understand (and respect) where others are coming from. This too is following Paul&#8217;s example &#8211; he listened and observed and tried to understand before he debated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; though the weather&#8217;s fair, feeling if anything rather more chilly than the previous few days. &#8220;You just can&#8217;t see it, can you?&#8221; Reading from the Lectionary in 2 Corinthians, we see how that is (in part) the writer&#8217;s response to people who don&#8217;t believe what he believes. It seems a little unsatisfactory, and we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/02\/11\/still-icy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Still icy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}