{"id":518,"date":"2007-03-09T07:04:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2007-03-09T07:04:36","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T15:04:36","slug":"a-beautiful-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2007\/03\/09\/a-beautiful-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I attended the &#8220;Watering Hole,&#8221; a men&#8217;s ministry at the new church my family has started attending.  There was an informal talk with a pastor from Uganda with whom the church has a ministry partnership.  It was very interesting to hear about the struggles of men and families in Africa.  Many of them are the same struggles we face here in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the evening, the Ugandan pastor gave all us guys a blessing in his native language.  We all stood with arms open to receive his blessing.  It was a deeply moving experience.  I of course couldn&#8217;t understand the actual words of his language, but I understood in my spirit the love and power of his blessing.  This is what the Church is all about &#8212; people of different races, languages and nations worshiping together and blessing each other in the peace and unity of the Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I attended the &#8220;Watering Hole,&#8221; a men&#8217;s ministry at the new church my family has started attending. There was an informal talk with a pastor from Uganda with whom the church has a ministry partnership. It was very interesting to hear about the struggles of men and families in Africa. Many of them [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-8m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}