{"id":1070,"date":"2015-09-25T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2016-02-18T21:43:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:43:31","slug":"crazy-on-a-soap-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1070","title":{"rendered":"Crazy on a soap box…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to live in Chicago. \u00a0I worked downtown and walked by the corner of\u00a0State and Washington almost everyday. \u00a0As I was walking by, almost every evening \u00a0a\u00a0preacher<\/a>\u00a0 was standing at the corner with a microphone and speaker addressing\u00a0everyone walking\u00a0by.<\/p>\n

I never stopped to really listen, but in the hundreds of\u00a0times I walked\u00a0by I know I heard him talk about the fires of hell and our need to repent. \u00a0Unfortunately the few times I even took notice of him, I thought to myself, “Oh my… he’s crazy!”<\/p>\n

As I read a passage about John the Baptist this week, I thought about John’s\u00a0passion and how many at that time thought he was crazy, and my friend back in Chicago came\u00a0to mind. \u00a0I am starting to think it would be better to be standing next to him and labeled “crazy” than to be swept away by the desires\u00a0of this world.<\/p>\n

Lord, thank you for creating\u00a0\u00a0other souls that are overflowing \u00a0with passion for You. \u00a0Please open my eyes to their example of love and zeal for You alone and rise up in me a great passion for You and Your Will and please remove my internal and self imposed obstacles so that I too might someday provide a safe harbor for at least four of Your little souls\u00a0from the rushing river of this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I used to live in Chicago. \u00a0I worked downtown and walked by the corner of\u00a0State and Washington almost everyday. \u00a0As I was walking by, almost every evening \u00a0a\u00a0preacher\u00a0 was standing at the corner with a microphone and speaker addressing\u00a0everyone walking\u00a0by. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[54,1111,1491,67,1488,1492,1485,987,1482,1484,92,389,15,1495,55,297,53,12,51,10,68,1489,1490,1481,1480,668,579,1487,1486,1494,1493,1483,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer","tag-best","tag-box","tag-chicago","tag-christ","tag-corner","tag-corner-of-state-and-washington","tag-crazy","tag-desire","tag-desires","tag-desires-of-this-world","tag-god","tag-harbor","tag-jesus","tag-john-the-baptist","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-passion","tag-preach","tag-preaching","tag-rising","tag-river","tag-rush","tag-safe","tag-soap","tag-soap-box","tag-state-street","tag-washington","tag-world","tag-your","tag-your-best-life"],"authors":[{"term_id":2854,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sbernadac","display_name":"Sarah Bernadac","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d6f6fd27725929c335efc2f3f617d947991447401cb02a573de4c068d7361377?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Bernadac","first_name":"Sarah","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}