{"id":5768,"date":"2015-10-02T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:09:12","slug":"oregon-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"OREGON SHOOTINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt from my forthcoming book, <em>God, What on Earth are You Doing? an Honest Conversation<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I often say that we Americans know how to cry, but not lament.\u00a0 Crying can simply be sadness over circumstances we do not like.\u00a0 Lament is a deeper cry of the soul that brings one\u2019s sorrow to God and wrestles with it there.\u00a0 One wise pastor says, \u201cIn this fallen world, sadness is an act of sanity, our tears the testimony of the sane.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Those in this category have internalized the great themes of the Bible, not in the stereotypical Sunday school sort of way, but in a way that has produced lasting fruit over the course of many years.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Zack Eswine, <i>Spurgeon\u2019s Sorrows: Realistic Hope for Those who Suffer from Depression<\/i> (Geanies House, Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications, 2014), 30.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from my forthcoming book, God, What on Earth are You Doing? an Honest Conversation: I often say that we Americans know how to cry, but not lament.\u00a0 Crying can simply be sadness over circumstances we do not like.\u00a0 Lament is a deeper cry of the soul that brings one\u2019s sorrow to God and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,47,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emotions","category-prayer","category-suffering"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5769,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}