{"id":783373,"date":"2010-12-27T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/leigharev2\/?p=783373"},"modified":"2010-12-27T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T20:57:19","slug":"paying-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2010\/12\/27\/paying-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Paying Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jesus answered her, <span>\u0093If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.\u0094 John 4:10<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">This is what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">If you knew&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">If you knew&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">How often do we fail to recognize Jesus?\u00a0 How little attention do\u00a0we pay to Him\u00a0as\u00a0we\u00a0go through\u00a0our day!\u00a0\u00a0We may\u00a0know that Jesus is all around and shows himself through conversations, open doors, challenges, and problems, yet how often do\u00a0we miss His gentle promptings, His soft callings, even His tugs to the ear?\u00a0\u00a0We get\u00a0ourselves all wrapped up in the mundane trappings of the world and tune out His presence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">If we just focus on Jesus, and Jesus alone, paying attention to His will for us, our lives will RADICALLY change.\u00a0 How we relate to our spouse, our children, our finances, our homes, our homeschool, our EVERYTHING!\u00a0 The things of the world, once thought of as all important to attain and maintain, fall away as nothing&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><em>Jesus, may every moment of every day be consecrated to you and you alone.\u00a0 Please bring to my attention the times when I go astray in thought and deed, and guide me back to you.\u00a0 Help me to hear you above all else.\u00a0 Please take this attention-deficit mind (squirrel!), and shape it to be aware of, and open to,\u00a0the sacred interactions meant for the two of us.\u00a0 Amen.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus answered her, \u0093If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.\u0094 John 4:10 This is what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well&#8230; If you knew&#8230; If you knew&#8230; How often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-reflections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}