{"id":3367,"date":"2022-02-21T11:05:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T11:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=3367"},"modified":"2022-02-21T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T11:05:01","slug":"glory-in-vision-and-deed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/02\/21\/glory-in-vision-and-deed\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory in vision and deed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=116\" target=\"_blank\"> next Sunday&#8217;s lectionary<\/a>, we read about the transfiguration of Jesus. Three disciples saw him as a glorious figure, clothed in dazzling white, talking with Moses and Elijah. They understood him as connected with God (the glory) and connected with their common history (Moses and Elijah) &#8211; fulfilment of the Law and the Prophets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then they come down from the mountain, and Jesus is dealing with an ordinary, difficult situation, a boy who was having seizures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d like my faith to include both elements&#8230; worship, hobnobbing with the Almighty; and hands-on, getting stuck in to ordinary life. It&#8217;s an aspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In next Sunday&#8217;s lectionary, we read about the transfiguration of Jesus. Three disciples saw him as a glorious figure, clothed in dazzling white, talking with Moses and Elijah. They understood him as connected with God (the glory) and connected with their common history (Moses and Elijah) &#8211; fulfilment of the Law and the Prophets. But &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2022\/02\/21\/glory-in-vision-and-deed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glory in vision and deed&#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-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","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=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}