{"id":2263,"date":"2021-03-18T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T11:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2263"},"modified":"2021-03-18T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T11:43:22","slug":"passion-with-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/03\/18\/passion-with-a-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion with a purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"613\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0062-1024x613.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0062-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0062-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0062-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0062.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Morning prayers by the lake by Janet and a zoom congregation. Then a walk in the misty and gentle weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=75\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a> contains a reading from John&#8217;s Gospel where Jesus talks about his forthcoming death. It&#8217;s not just random &#8211; it&#8217;s where everything was leading. &#8216;Passion&#8217; can also be about being done to, being powerless as in &#8216;passive&#8217; &#8211; &#8216;suffer&#8217; can also be about allowing something to happen. Jesus is walking towards his own powerlessness. But &#8216;passion&#8217; is also (in current usage anyway) about intense feeling. And there&#8217;s that in Jesus too. For all that love is an act of the will, it also, sooner or later, comes with feeling. <em>&#8220;Now my soul is troubled.&#8221;<\/em> says Jesus in verse 12:27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning prayers by the lake by Janet and a zoom congregation. Then a walk in the misty and gentle weather. Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary contains a reading from John&#8217;s Gospel where Jesus talks about his forthcoming death. It&#8217;s not just random &#8211; it&#8217;s where everything was leading. &#8216;Passion&#8217; can also be about being done to, being powerless &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/03\/18\/passion-with-a-purpose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passion with a purpose&#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-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","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=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}