{"id":761,"date":"2007-12-20T00:46:29","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=196"},"modified":"2007-12-20T00:46:29","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T00:46:29","slug":"121907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"12\/19\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family does “prayer time” every morning, with our kids sometimes having the opportunity to prepare short “teachings” on their own. \u00a0 Yesterday our Sarah, 12, passed out sheets of paper to each of us that said: \u00a0 “A talent God has given you:” \u00a0 In turn, each of us was to write down one of the talents and then committ to using it more to help build God’s kingdom — before Dec. 25th. \u00a0 Sarah then collected the papers, wrapped them in a parchment-like shell (brown paper bag), \u00a0tied it with purple yarn, and placed it under the Christmas tree as a “gift to God for His birthday.” \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 In the magazine Alternatives for Simple Living<\/em>, author Shane Claiborne wrote a piece titled: Away in a Stank Manger<\/em>. \u00a0 His gritty point being that Jesus was born in \u00a0what was probably a rather dirty \u00a0stable. \u00a0Claiborne then goes on to write: \u00a0 “We will much more likely meet Jesus this Christmas in the filth of the ghetto than in the best-decorated sanctuary or the most festive shopping mall.” \u00a0 [Claiborne is the author of the book: The Irresistible Revolution<\/em>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our family does “prayer time” every morning, with our kids sometimes having the opportunity to prepare short “teachings” on their own. \u00a0 Yesterday our Sarah, 12, passed out sheets of paper to each of us that said: \u00a0 “A talent …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}