{"id":35659,"date":"2023-08-17T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/?p=35659"},"modified":"2023-08-10T09:21:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T16:21:12","slug":"august-17-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/2023\/08\/17\/august-17-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"August 17, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 has-pattern-background has-mask-background fusion-parallax-none nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-background-position:center top;--awb-background-repeat:repeat-y;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-background-image:url(&quot;https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/August-2023.jpg&quot;);--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-one-sixth fusion-column-first\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;width:16.666666666667%;width:calc(16.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.16666666666667 ) );margin-right: 4%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_3_4 3_4 fusion-three-fourth fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:10px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:10px;--awb-bg-size:cover;width:75%;width:calc(75% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.75 ) );\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h2><strong>One Chance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cBe kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love\u2026\u201d<\/em> Romans 12:10a<\/p>\n<p>Some people are on the periphery of your life. You can see them around you, but you have no direct contact. The young man walking his bike in the crosswalk while you wait at a red light. The family at the mall with the littlest child jumping up and down about something. The author of the new publication you just finished reading. They are out there, with real lives lived, real problems, real dreams, real loves.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are the people you will meet only once in life. The lady in front of you in the checkout line. The daughter of your husband\u2019s co-worker, who came to take her mom out to lunch when you were there one time. The guy who wasn\u2019t paying attention and accidentally bumped you with his shopping cart.<\/p>\n<p>One brief meeting. One chance to be kind. One shot at changing someone\u2019s day\u2014maybe even their outlook on life. One chance to encourage, to notice, to see a life, a problem, a dream, maybe even a love.<\/p>\n<p>God arranged it for you, and for that other person. What will you do when it happens?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Lord, we know You are sovereign over all the comings and goings of man. Help us to recognize these brief encounters as from Your own hand, and respond with the words that You give us. Use us for good. Teach us kindness, that we may bless someone. In Jesus\u2019 name, amen.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p92wjD-9h9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35660,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35659\/revisions\/35660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lccredding.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}