{"id":1163,"date":"2008-12-07T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:17:20","slug":"advent-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Advent &#8211; Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; padding:5px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/xmas\/advent2.jpg\" alt=\"advent\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>We prepare this week by stepping up the longing. We move through this week by naming deeper and more specific desires.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning this week, if even for that brief moment at the side of our beds, we want to light a second inner candle.  We want to let it represent &#8220;a bit more hope.&#8221;  Perhaps we can pause, breathe deeply and say, &#8220;Lord, I place my trust in you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creighton.edu\/CollaborativeMinistry\/Advent\/firstweek.html\">Continue with this reading.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The above reading is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creighton.edu\/CollaborativeMinistry\/Advent\/\">Praying Advent<\/a>, an online initiative of the Collaborative Ministry Office of Creighton University. There&#8217;s lots more to be found there &#8212; something for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We prepare this week by stepping up the longing. We move through this week by naming deeper and more specific desires. Each morning this week, if even for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,48,42],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-liturgical-year","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}