{"id":309,"date":"2021-07-08T13:24:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/?p=309"},"modified":"2021-07-08T13:24:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:24:18","slug":"be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/08\/be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Be Still and Know That I Am God&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"140\" height=\"204\" class=\"wp-image-41\" style=\"width: 140px;float:left;margin-right:10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/JackiBelile-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"The Rev. Jacki Belile\">Yep, it&#8217;s hard for me too. As you may guess.\u00a0 But my heart is filled with joy to be concluding vacation in the latter part of this week in one of our special sacred spots. We&#8217;re in Grand Marais, Minn. in the far northeast corner of &#8216;the north shore&#8221; of Minnesota, right on Lake Superior&#8217;s shore.\u00a0 We fell in love with this area nearly 30 years ago, and have spent many summer vacations here.\u00a0 \u00a0These couple days are the first days since 2012, and it&#8217;s good to be back.\u00a0<br><br>We had a wonderful time with my family, including the memorial service and significant fellowship with extended family.<br><br>On my mind, for me and for us all&#8230; how important it is to RECEIVE . God&#8217;s beautiful handiwork in majestic nature, silence, new experiences, family roots.\u00a0 Why is it easier to remember our smallness, interdependence, and trust when we&#8217;re in nature?\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure.\u00a0 \u00a0I can put my intellect in that zone in the city, and I am certainly devoted to urban life and community-building.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s so good to have a rhythm of time away. I don&#8217;t take it for granted!\u00a0 And I always pray I would savor and safeguard these lessons upon return.\u00a0 The Bible is filled with reminders to not stay fixated on the &#8220;mountain top moments.&#8221;<br><br>I&#8217;m looking forward to worship Sunday morning and the kick-off of our series on the Fruits of the Spirit (in Galatians 5).\u00a0 Join me in remembering that these fruits, such as love, are the results of the Spirit&#8217;s presence and tending. Not some moral checklist we take on as a burden to gain or earn anything.\u00a0 In fact, Paul begins this section with a recap on FREEDOM.\u00a0 What does it mean that such attributes are as much a gift as a goal?\u00a0<br><br>See you Sunday!<br><br>In Christ&#8217;s Peace,<br>Pastor Jacki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, it&#8217;s hard for me too. As you may guess.\u00a0 But my heart is filled with joy to be concluding vacation in the latter part of this week in one of our special sacred spots. We&#8217;re in Grand Marais, Minn. in the far northeast corner of &#8216;the north shore&#8221; of Minnesota, right on Lake Superior&#8217;s<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2021\/07\/08\/be-still-and-know-that-i-am-god\/\" class=\"themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}