{"id":863,"date":"2014-04-18T04:31:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T09:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=863"},"modified":"2015-04-05T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T18:14:21","slug":"the-blessing-of-interruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"The blessing of interruptions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Passion of our Lord, Simon the Cyrene was interrupted. \u00a0Simon&#8217;s plans and his will were put on hold when he was asked to help carry the cross of our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine how annoyed you would be to be pulled away from your schedule and your plans to help a convicted criminal? \u00a0Sorrowfully I admit that I would be very annoyed and maybe even angry.<\/p>\n<p>Simon didn&#8217;t know it at first, but this interruption was possibly the greatest blessing of his life, when he was given the honor to help our Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Lord please help me to more graciously accept the interruptions and help me remember Your hidden blessings they carry as I turn away from my will and allow Your Will to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be done. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Passion of our Lord, Simon the Cyrene was interrupted. \u00a0Simon&#8217;s plans and his will were put on hold when he was asked to help carry the cross of our Lord. Can you imagine how annoyed you would be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/?p=863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[6],"tags":[1054,1052,1053,54,82,217,1057,221,1056,1055,67,1050,65,1051,92,1047,1043,1044,15,833,55,297,53,12,51,10,68,1042,480,1048,75,1045,1049,832,1046,421,52,16],"ppma_author":[2854],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blessings","tag-angry","tag-annoy","tag-annoyed","tag-best","tag-blessing","tag-blessings-2","tag-burden","tag-carry","tag-carry-the-burden","tag-carry-the-cross","tag-christ","tag-come","tag-cross","tag-done","tag-god","tag-hidden","tag-interruption","tag-interruptions","tag-jesus","tag-kingdom","tag-life","tag-lord","tag-my","tag-my-best-life","tag-our","tag-our-best-life","tag-passion","tag-simon","tag-simon-the-cyrene","tag-the-passion","tag-the-passion-of-christ","tag-the-passion-of-our-lord","tag-thy","tag-thy-kingdom-come","tag-thy-will-be-done","tag-will","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\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":865,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourbestlife.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}