{"id":1827,"date":"2011-02-23T11:05:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-02-23T11:05:51","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T18:05:51","slug":"daybook-feb-16-23-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/02\/23\/daybook-feb-16-23-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Daybook: Feb. 16-23, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

February 16-23, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lectionary<\/em><\/p>\n

Mark 9:38-40<\/p>\n

John said to Jesus, \u201cTeacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cDo not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Reflection<\/em><\/p>\n

“In Christianity there is both choice and no choice, freedom and compulsion.\u00a0 Christianity says to man, ‘you shall choose to accept the eseential truth of life’; and this truth is so compelling that you have no choice.\u00a0 Indeed once you perceive this essential truth, you have no choice but to accept it.\u00a0 Once you realize that God is inviting you into his kingdom, you cannot refuse.\u00a0 The choice to accept or reject Christianity is not a matter of cool deliberation, weighing up pros and cons with the intellect.\u00a0 Christ demands a response of infinite passion, either of hatred or love.\u00a0 Those who crucified him responded with hatred.\u00a0 If you respond with love, you cannot help but accept his invitation.\u00a0 Thus the choice is one of passion, not of reason.” — Soren Kierkegaard<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Prayer<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Christ be with me, Christ within me,
\nChrist behind me, Christ before me,
\nChrist beside me, Christ to win me,
\nChrist to comfort and restore me.<\/p>\n

Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
\nChrist in quiet, Christ in danger,
\nChrist in hearts of all that love me,
\nChrist in mouth of friend and stranger.<\/p>\n

I bind unto myself the Name,
\nThe strong Name of the Trinity;
\nBy invocation of the same.
\nThe Three in One, and One in Three,<\/p>\n

Of Whom all nature hath creation,
\nEternal Father, Spirit, Word:
\nPraise to the Lord of my salvation,
\nSalvation is of Christ the Lord.
\n(from St. Patrick’s Breastplate<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February 16-23, 2011 Lectionary Mark 9:38-40 John said to Jesus, \u201cTeacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cDo not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[64,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daybook","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-tt","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}