{"id":3273,"date":"2022-01-23T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2022-01-23T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T17:01:06","slug":"moments-and-eternity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/01\/23\/moments-and-eternity\/","title":{"rendered":"Moments and eternity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In next <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=110\" target=\"_blank\">Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, the Jeremiah reading is about the calling of a prophet, a moment, a beginning. The Luke reading is about a moment at the beginning of  Jesus&#8217;s ministry, and the violent opposition he meets &#8211; the shadow of his forthcoming death is already beginning to fall on the story. And in 1 Corinthians, Paul writes about the eternal significance of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, in the news, we hear about moments in the near future which may have a profound effect on the future of the world for a long time. No love there, I fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The turn of the year is a repeated moment. The rhythm of flowering, seeding and growth overlaps this human-made marker. This teasel (I guess that&#8217;s what it is) might be said to belong to last year &#8230; or next?&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1023.jpg 640w, https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_1023-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, the Jeremiah reading is about the calling of a prophet, a moment, a beginning. The Luke reading is about a moment at the beginning of Jesus&#8217;s ministry, and the violent opposition he meets &#8211; the shadow of his forthcoming death is already beginning to fall on the story. And in 1 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/01\/23\/moments-and-eternity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Moments and eternity&#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-3273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273","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=3273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3273\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}