{"id":85173,"date":"2023-01-24T12:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T17:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85173"},"modified":"2023-01-24T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T01:10:08","slug":"reflections-on-psalms-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/01\/24\/reflections-on-psalms-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Psalms 10:1"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/111\/psa.10.1.NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Psalms 10:1<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from bible.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I get this piece of scripture&#8230;big time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In the early fall of my senior year in college, I wanted to be sure that the LORD wasn&#8217;t a hoax. I didn&#8217;t want to commit the rest of my life to Him if He wasn&#8217;t real. From that point on, until a Maundy Thursday service at the Alice Millar Chapel on NU&#8217;s campus the next spring, I felt that the LORD was 10,000 miles away from me. I couldn&#8217;t hear Him or sense Him. I won&#8217;t go into details, but it turned out that the LORD was definitely at work. He was changing my identity (though it felt more like a <em>ripping away<\/em> of my identity) from an athlete to one of His adopted children. I&#8217;m glad He was at work, but I wouldn&#8217;t want to relive that year ever again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psalms 10:1 &#8212; from bible.com Why, LORD, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? From DSC: I get this piece of scripture&#8230;big time. In the early fall of my senior year in college, I wanted to be sure that the LORD wasn&#8217;t a hoax. I didn&#8217;t want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,848,425,500,248,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-s-christian","category-emotion","category-faith","category-hearts-matters-of-the-heart","category-relationships","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85178,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85173\/revisions\/85178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}