{"id":318,"date":"2012-03-05T06:11:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neotraditionalism.com\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2012-03-05T06:11:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T11:11:56","slug":"sweet-about-the-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/sweet-about-the-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet about the soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neotraditionalism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-322\" title=\"Untitled\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neotraditionalism.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Untitled-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My wife reads her Bible every morning, assiduously studying it with colored pencils and supplemental material.<\/p>\n<p>I eat cereal and drink coffee.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose she could be getting ready for work outside the home so that we could have additional income. Or that she could find a career that would give her some public interface to our image conscious society. Our home could be filled with consumer goods and people like me who are pragmatic, scientific, self-actualized, driven, opinionated, informed and full of useless information.<\/p>\n<p>That is, until the storms of life come.<\/p>\n<p>Thereupon most of us might trust in the resources we\u2019ve amassed: education, home-equity, mutual funds, retirement accounts, credit cards, health insurance, technology, organic food, shopping, alcohol, hobbies, the Internet, associates, information, video games, escapism, celebrities or any one of the infinite number of idolatries available to us in our modern age of irreligion.<\/p>\n<p>But some storms can\u2019t be weathered that way; there is security and then there is <em>REAL<\/em> security.<\/p>\n<p>If I were to tell my wife, \u201cI just won a billion dollars in the national lottery!\u201d She\u2019d be excited\u2014no doubt. But it wouldn\u2019t change her at all. She\u2019d be up the next morning just like every other, reading and marking up her Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, if I were to call home and say, \u201cI\u2019m quitting my job right now! I don\u2019t know where our next check is coming from!\u201d her response would be \u201cSo will you be driving by the store on your way home? We\u2019re out of bread\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whereas I may know a thing or two about the Bible, my wife, well, knows the Author.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife reads her Bible every morning, assiduously studying it with colored pencils and supplemental material. I eat cereal and drink coffee. I suppose she could be getting ready for work outside the home so that we could have additional income. Or that she could find a career that would give her some public interface [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accipite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}