{"id":18561,"date":"2024-12-02T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=18561"},"modified":"2024-12-02T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:47:51","slug":"words-of-light-in-dark-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/02\/words-of-light-in-dark-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of Light In Dark Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>More than 60 years ago, Rev. J.H. Traugott wrote: &#8220;Jesus Christ did not come to make life easy but rather to make men great.&#8221; Now, during the holiday season for a number of religions, when many may feel as if they are going through dark times, this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lkadish.medium.com\/a-sermonette-by-rev-j-h-traugott-d3f815bee747\">sermonette<\/a>\u00a0might offer some welcome light:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>There was a man who lived nineteen hundred years ago&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>This man not only spoke with an accent, he also lived with an accent. This is what really distinguished him from other&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>His accent in life was not what can I get out of Life, but what can I give to life&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>His accent was not how comfortable can he be, but rather how comfortable he can make others&#8230; His accent was not in helping himself, but in helping others&#8230; His accent was not on his own health but on how healthy he can make others&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>His accent was on living a full and rich and loving life&#8230; His accent was on loving others&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>This accent on love won&#8217;t make your life any easier. It will get you into trouble because you are going to see things that you can no longer overlook and bypass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8230;. You may still have the aching back and the weak heart&#8230; but this accent on life will point you to the purpose of life. The meaning of life and the joy of life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><em>\u00a0egretnewseditor@gmail.com\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 60 years ago, Rev. J.H. Traugott wrote: &#8220;Jesus Christ did not come to make life easy but rather to make men great.&#8221; Now, during the holiday season for a number of religions, when many may feel as if they are going through dark times, this\u00a0sermonette\u00a0might offer some welcome light:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47471,"featured_media":18563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18569,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions\/18569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}