{"id":106,"date":"2009-12-31T14:26:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=106"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:31:27","slug":"facing-a-new-year-at-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Facing a new year at rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Psalm 131 is a prayer of a person at rest with God, with his world, with himself.\u00a0 Not a bad place to begin the new year and decade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/openhand.2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-108\" title=\"openhand.2\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/openhand.2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A person at rest prays with &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A humble heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things to great and too marvelous for me.&#8221; (v.1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A hushed soul. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.&#8221; (2)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A hopeful resolve. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O Israel, hope in the LORD from this time forth and forevermore.&#8221; (3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 131 is a prayer of a person at rest with God, with his world, with himself.\u00a0 Not a bad place to begin the new year and decade.\u00a0 A person at rest prays with &#8230; A humble heart. &#8220;O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms","post-preview"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-1I","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}