{"id":1209,"date":"2024-12-07T22:42:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2024-12-07T22:42:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:42:58","slug":"my-birthday-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1209","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy Birthday Wish\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYour eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained\u00a0for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.\u201d Psalm 139:16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today is my seventy-eighth birthday. What does a 78 year old need\/want for their birthday? Nothing materialistic. I really <strong>wish<\/strong> I had an uninterrupted hour with each of you. Probably because the most precious gift we give to anyone is \u201cTIME\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What have I found to be one of the most challenging things in life? Facing the TRUTH about who I tried be verses who God created me to be. Another personal challenge has been sharing those TRUTHS with you each week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of God\u2019s greatest gifts to me has been the many accountability partners I\u2019ve had over the years. Sadly, most have passed away. God never fails to send me new ones though. One of the newest is Mike Schmitz, the Chaplain at The University of Minnesota, Duluth. I wish I had an uninterrupted hour with him as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is the link to last Sunday\u2019s sermon by Fr. Mike. He\u2019s open, transparent, real, relatable and funny. I\u2019d like to share it with you and I promise not to ask if you watched it. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Face to Face: Couch Cushions&quot; | The First Sunday of Advent (Fr. Mike&#039;s Homily) #sundaymass\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cy1BgZTEWNk?list=PLZEB5VH_ET9Tfi-zykCaiBDmFIyl-n0lk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for your friendship. You\u2019ve blessed me more than you\u2019ll ever know just by being a part of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cYour eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained\u00a0for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.\u201d Psalm 139:16 Applying God\u2019s Word Today is my seventy-eighth birthday. What does a 78 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1209\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}