{"id":5525,"date":"2023-11-30T05:16:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2023-11-30T05:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T13:16:15","slug":"hope-in-the-weariness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/pastors-weekly-message\/hope-in-the-weariness\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in the weariness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People of Advent,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we prepare the way of Advent, there are many reasons that can cause us to be weary. If you are experiencing weariness, is there a particular something you can name as the cause? Of course, the idea of waiting is wearisome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first week of our journey calls us to acknowledge our weariness and to enter into hope. Hope sees our past and moves toward our future. It doesn&#8217;t require clarity. It relies upon our willingness to step into the mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Sunday, we will be looking at the rarely used story of Gabriel&#8217;s annunciation to Zechariah (Luke 1:1-23). It is a much different experience than that of Mary&#8217;s. I look forward to seeing you on Balclutha or Zoom at 10 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours in weariness and hope,<br>Rev. Michael Cronin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People of Advent, As we prepare the way of Advent, there are many reasons that can cause us to be weary. If you are experiencing weariness, is there a particular something you can name as the cause? Of course, the idea of waiting is wearisome. This first week of our journey calls us to acknowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iucfc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}