{"id":1813,"date":"2020-02-23T22:47:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T04:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2020-02-23T22:51:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T04:51:07","slug":"the-stones-are-crying-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"The Stones Are Crying Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a stone tile in my shower that reminds me of the face of our Lord gazing up to His Father in Heaven and saying, <em>\u201cFather, forgive them,  for they do not know what they are doing.\u201d<\/em> Luke 23:34<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have looked at this tile almost every day for the last 8 years and I am always dumbfounded by the fact that our Lord created it, had men prep it and install it in this shower for the day I would notice it and then see it every day and experience, for a moment, His forgiveness and sorrow over my unrealized sins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In just the last few days I have finally realized that not only am I experiencing an image of His great forgiveness and sorrow daily, but I am also experiencing His guarantee that if His disciples become silent, the stones will cry out.  This stone is crying out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Sweet and Holy Lord, please do not let me be a silent disciple, teach me oh Lord to cry out in joyful praise for all of the miracles I have seen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke 19:37-40<br><em>As soon as He was approaching, near the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of the disciples began to praise God joyfully with a loud voice for all the miracles which they had seen,\u00a0shouting:<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cBLESSED IS THE\u00a0KING WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE\u00a0LORD;<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!\u201d<br>Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, \u201cTeacher, rebuke Your disciples.\u201d\u00a0But Jesus answered, \u201cI tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a stone tile in my shower that reminds me of the face of our Lord gazing up to His Father in Heaven and saying, \u201cFather, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.\u201d Luke 23:34 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=1813\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8,7,679,2091,841,2290],"tags":[54,67,142,2801,980,541,2808,96,92,2803,15,55,297,2799,2800,2798,633,632,53,12,51,10,296,23,499,2795,2796,2797,2806,2805,2804,2807,2802,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-belief","category-faith","category-forgiveness-2","category-glory","category-joy-2","category-praise","tag-best","tag-christ","tag-disciple","tag-disciples","tag-father","tag-forgive","tag-forgive-them","tag-forgiveness","tag-god","tag-if-these-become-silent","tag-jesus","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-luke-19","tag-luke-19-37-40","tag-luke-23-34","tag-miracle","tag-miracles","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-praise","tag-sorrow","tag-stone","tag-stones","tag-stones-are-crying-out","tag-stones-cry-out","tag-stones-will-cry-out","tag-the-stones-are-crying-out","tag-the-stones-will-cry-out","tag-they-do-not-know-what-they-are-doing","tag-witness","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","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}