{"id":11172,"date":"2017-12-17T11:56:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/?p=11172"},"modified":"2017-12-24T14:13:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T19:13:06","slug":"grace-notes-advent-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/grace-notes-advent-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"“Grace” Notes (Advent – Joy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

JOY:
\n(Read Is. 65:18 & Phil. 4:4-6).<\/h3>\n

We\u2019re at the halfway point in our Advent journey of preparation. On this day, we\u2019re asked rather pertinently, \u201cwhat is the sign of your trust in God?\u201d Following a week of multi-layered problems, experienced in every corridor of the world, not least in the expressed view, that Jamaica is teetering on the brink of anarchy, here comes the challenge…be JOYFUL! How is that possible? Are we expected to be mere sentimentalists or worse, hypocrites? The truth is, neither answer is correct. JOY is not \u2018happy-clappy\u2019 sentimentality that superimposes a smile upon one\u2019s pain or denies the pain\u2019s existence; it is rather, \u201cthe expression of knowing you are loved unconditionally and nothing, can take that love away\u201d (Henri Nouwen). JOY is seeing and celebrating God, amidst life\u2019s myriad trials. It is being moved to say with Mary, \u2018that which is deep within me, proclaims God\u2019s greatness, for my spirit has learned how to ABIDE in Him!\u2019 Be filled with JOY then beloved, and…be strong.<\/p>\n

Canon “Grace” Jervis
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JOY: (Read Is. 65:18 & Phil. 4:4-6). We\u2019re at the halfway point in our Advent journey of preparation. On this day, we\u2019re asked rather pertinently, \u201cwhat is the sign of your trust in God?\u201d Following a week of multi-layered problems, experienced in every corridor of the world, not least in the expressed view, that Jamaica…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":11173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-message","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11175,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11172\/revisions\/11175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicandioceseja.org\/copy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}