{"id":435,"date":"2011-04-18T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/04\/18\/holy-week-monday-3\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T12:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T19:26:35","slug":"holy-week-monday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/holy-week-monday-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week: Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>&#8220;Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.&#8221; (Psalm 27:14) <\/b><\/div>\n<p>\nMonday  of Holy Week is a day that can be almost lost in the daily grind of  everyday life. We&#8217;re looking towards Easter, but see no special  significance in this day. We&#8217;re waiting for the week to pass, waiting on  Resurrection Day to arrive. Many of us don&#8217;t like waiting. It makes us  antsy. But great things can come out of waiting.<\/p>\n<p>Mary  and Martha had to wait for Jesus. Lazarus died while they were waiting.  Yet, Jesus didn&#8217;t forsake them. He had a miracle in store, and he raised  Lazarus from the tomb. What a great resurrection day that was! Do you  think witnesses to that miracle had their faith strengthened?<\/p>\n<p>Today,  let&#8217;s ask Jesus to raise us above any obstacles that prevent us from  drawing nearer to Him. Let&#8217;s take a few moments to reflect on the  blessings God has placed in our midst&#8211;those both large and small.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Wait for the Lord with courage; be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord.&#8221; (Psalm 27:14) Monday of Holy Week is a day that can be almost lost in the daily grind of everyday life. We&#8217;re looking towards Easter, but see no special significance in this day. We&#8217;re waiting for the week to pass, waiting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}