{"id":1633,"date":"2021-01-21T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2021-01-21T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:31:57","slug":"1-3-21-the-second-sunday-after-christmas-day-returning-not-to-herod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1633","title":{"rendered":"1\/3\/21 The Second Sunday after Christmas Day: Another road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Today we celebrate the arrival of the wisemen bearing gifts for the child king Jesus. And as we begin the new year let\u2019s take to heart the ending of their story: \u201c Having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>In the new year let us beware of simply returning to the stock answers of the self-aggrandizing worldly powers of \u201cHerod\u201d.\u00a0 Now is the time to take \u201canother road\u201d.\u00a0 As the wisemen found their way to the child-gift through perseverance and faith-bound divine guidance, that same perseverance blessed by receiving the gift of God\u2019s blessing would guide them on the next leg of their journey.\u00a0 Not returning, but taking another road.\u00a0 The wisdom of giving \u2013 ourselves, our gifts, our being \u2013 is evident in the ancient story.\u00a0 God is revealed to those who give.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate the arrival of the wisemen bearing gifts for the child king Jesus. And as we begin the new year let\u2019s take to heart the ending of their story: \u201c Having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.\u201d In the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1633\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1\/3\/21 The Second Sunday after Christmas Day: Another road<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}