{"id":540,"date":"2024-12-24T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T19:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2024-12-25T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T20:00:50","slug":"the-hopes-and-fears-of-all-the-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/the-hopes-and-fears-of-all-the-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hopes and Fears of All the Years.."},"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\">&#8220;are met in Thee tonight.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Christmas Eve preparations are almost complete. Our sanctuary will be filled with our hopes and fears, our peace and hope and joy and love. Incredible music and a faith-full Word and a welcoming Table. Lighting candles (anyway!), we&#8217;ll worship in the reality of this Day.&nbsp; The reality that &#8220;Jesus is the still point in a turning world.&#8221; (T.S. Eliot poem)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reality is that whatever we bring to the hour is met by the loving gaze in the Light of the world.&nbsp; And that we are being given the power to become the children of God who can be Bearers of Light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This service always seems to call me to a sense of connection to the saints present and past. May our joining of hearts bless the saints of the future too.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re traveling or committed to other family obligations, we pray a blessing on your family time.&nbsp; We warmly invite you to join on Zoom or to take in the recording this week.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the Good News,<br>Pastor Jacki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;are met in Thee tonight.&#8221;\u00a0 Our Christmas Eve preparations are almost complete. Our sanctuary will be filled with our hopes and fears, our peace and hope and joy and love. Incredible music and a faith-full Word and a welcoming Table. Lighting candles (anyway!), we&#8217;ll worship in the reality of this Day.&nbsp; The reality that &#8220;Jesus<span class=\"post-excerpt-end\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/24\/the-hopes-and-fears-of-all-the-years-2\/\" 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-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edenuccchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}