{"id":314,"date":"2021-09-20T14:53:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2021-09-20T14:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:53:16","slug":"when-you-can-no-longer-stand-kneel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/when-you-can-no-longer-stand-kneel\/","title":{"rendered":"When you can no longer stand, kneel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/img_3896\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-313 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_3896-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3896\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>During recent travels I came upon this sign in a diner. \u00a0I was immediately struck by its truth. \u00a0There are times when we feel so weak that we stumble, we find it hard to maintain our balance. \u00a0We may feel lost, we may even move toward despair. \u00a0But if we kneel &#8211; turn to God in prayer- we will find hope. \u00a0Prayer is intimate connection with the Holy, the ever-present power of love. \u00a0Kneeling can mean bowing down, recognizing that the controlling power resides not in us but in God. \u00a0In That humbling of ourselves we come to see the loving, guiding hand that keeps us going. \u00a0The hand that pulls us to our feet and gives us new life, new strength, new hope. \u00a0Praise God!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During recent travels I came upon this sign in a diner. \u00a0I was immediately struck by its truth. \u00a0There are times when we feel so weak that we stumble, we find it hard to maintain our balance. \u00a0We may feel lost, we may even move toward despair. \u00a0But if we kneel &#8211; turn to God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[28,38,98,174],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prayer","tag-connection","tag-god","tag-prayer-2","tag-surrender"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3d89p-54","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}