{"id":18,"date":"2016-12-06T04:47:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T04:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2020-12-25T01:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T01:19:08","slug":"a-loving-light-to-lead-the-world","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/a-loving-light-to-lead-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"5. A Loving Light to Lead the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/A-True-Christmas-Sleigh-300.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prayer2change-300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2970\" height=\"2254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prayer2change-300.png 2970w, https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prayer2change-300-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prayer2change-300-768x583.png 768w, https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/prayer2change-300-1024x777.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2970px) 100vw, 2970px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">*<\/span><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If you didn&#8217;t open the two gifts at the bottom of each page, <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>click the golden star below and come back through <\/em><strong>. . \u00a0.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>you may enjoy thinking about a few of the people <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>whose love of goodness have given you <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>the gift of Christmas<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u232a\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2329<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>These thoughts are very simple<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>But they take us where we want to go<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>To enjoy God&#8217;s gift of \u00a0life in our soul,<\/em><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And that can make our Christmas somewhat cheerful \u00a0<strong>!<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>John 17: 3<\/em><\/h6>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/home\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\">*<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Did you ever ask God why He is so loving and kind<strong>?<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\"><em><strong>*<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">*\u00a0<\/span><\/h6>\n<pre style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Papawsthoughts.com    an index to our devotional websites<\/span><\/a><\/pre>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>. . . Meditate in His Presence day and night . . .<\/em><\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ruth.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-66 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gift96-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"gift96\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gift96-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gift96-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Saul.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-66 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gift96-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"gift96\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gift96-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/gift96-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Psalm 1 (paraphrase)<\/em><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<h6><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">photos courtesy unsplash.com photographers<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>5<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* If you didn&#8217;t open the two gifts at the bottom of each page, click the golden star below and come back through . . \u00a0. you may enjoy thinking about a few of the people whose love of goodness have given you the gift of Christmas.\u00a0 \u232a\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2329 These thoughts are very simple But they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papawsthoughts.com\/christmas\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}