{"id":1809,"date":"2017-05-03T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:01:35","slug":"thy-rod-and-thy-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/03\/thy-rod-and-thy-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Thy Rod and Thy Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent a link by a friend of mine, to this blog post. \u00a0I really like this, because it points out everyday things and events that are the rod and staff of our shepherd, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"TQkM7Kkzir\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignatianspirituality.com\/25778\/your-rod-and-your-staff\">Your Rod and Your Staff<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ignatianspirituality.com\/25778\/your-rod-and-your-staff\/embed#?secret=TQkM7Kkzir\" data-secret=\"TQkM7Kkzir\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Your Rod and Your Staff&#8221; &#8212; Ignatian Spirituality\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sent a link by a friend of mine, to this blog post. \u00a0I really like this, because it points out everyday things and events that are the rod and staff of our shepherd, Jesus Christ. &nbsp; Your Rod and Your Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,15,41,3,42,132,43,10,82,85],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-1809","6":"format-standard","7":"category-christ","8":"category-christian-love","9":"category-fear","10":"category-grace","11":"category-healing","12":"category-health","13":"category-humility","14":"category-jesus","15":"category-preparedness","16":"category-shepherd"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-tb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1571,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/27\/traveling-light-ch-11-12\/","url_meta":{"origin":1809,"position":0},"title":"Traveling Light Ch 11-12","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"June 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is part 4 of a 6 part series from Max Lucado\u2019s book, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear. 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