{"id":7091,"date":"2021-05-30T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T06:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2021-05-30T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T06:46:02","slug":"lightly-salted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/lightly-salted-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightly Salted"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Lightly Salted Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Story<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A US soldier brought back from Germany a little phosphorescent match case that illuminates in the darkness. One evening, in a company of friends, he took it out to show them. He turned out all the lights, but the obstinate little match case would not shine. The soldier concluded that he had been swindled. The next day, while examining his purchase more closely, he read on one side, \u201cIf you wish me to shine, keep me in the sunlight.\u201d He followed the directions, put it out where the sun\u2019s rays could be absorbed and then in a dark room found it had a brilliant glow.<\/p><p>We cannot be lights for Christ in this world unless we live in His presence day by day \u2026 Only then can we be what Christ intended us to be: lights shining in the darkness. <\/p><cite>Eastern Orthodoxy: A Way of Life by Anthony M. Coniaris<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Question<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>How can we obtain this light from\nChrist and live in His Presence day by day? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightly Salted Part 2 Story A US soldier brought back from Germany a little phosphorescent match case that illuminates in the darkness. One evening, in a company of friends, he took it out to show them. He turned out all the lights, but the obstinate little match case would not shine. The soldier concluded that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/lightly-salted-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lightly Salted&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7092,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions\/7092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stmark.com.au\/Blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}