{"id":2265,"date":"2022-01-30T21:25:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T03:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2022-01-30T21:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T03:25:59","slug":"st-albans-daily-january-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"St. Alban\u2019s Daily- January 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><\/tr><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/95c68cc3-d628-4832-8fbf-6dc0258577b0.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><strong>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal Church<\/strong><br><strong>Bolivar, Missouri<\/strong><br><br><strong>January 30, 2022<\/strong><br><strong>How then will we livein the kind of lovethat 1 Corinthians 13 describes?<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><strong>First of all, CAN we? Is it even possible?<\/strong><br><br>In today&#8217;s homily I told a story of someone who demonstrated that it can be done &#8211; a very ordinary Christian fellow. In fact, it is\u00a0<em>only\u00a0<\/em>ever done by ordinary people. And it is only ordinary people who become saints &#8211; people who love relentlessly. And they do it by practice, just as every other skill is learned &#8211; basketball or piano. It&#8217;s deciding to do it that makes the difference. Not making that choice costs us our authenticity as humans &#8211; we end up like clanging cymbals &#8211; not genuinely human persons.<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/276bd9b5-86b2-4dcc-9d30-55793f991720.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br><strong>Happy 17th Birthday, Olivia Cox!<\/strong><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"155\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/5ec424e9-059b-4b96-85f8-95b84a30a38f.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"217\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/e88c55b8-76ca-4498-8596-b143eb97e603.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><strong>What does it cost, really?<\/strong><br>In a word, everything. But its more expensive not to pay that price. I have been with many people when they were dying and knew that they were. Not ONE ever said, &#8220;I loved too much&#8221; or &#8220;I was too honest,&#8221; or &#8220;I regret giving my life for something bigger than myself.&#8221; But many, may regretted not reconciling with someone, not forgiving an enemy or even a friend, not making a difference to someone to whom they could have made a real difference.<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/0035c4e4-4417-4e57-839f-c2468d70389c.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"10\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5\" height=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/sys\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal ChurchBolivar, Missouri January 30, 2022How then will we livein the kind of lovethat 1 Corinthians 13 describes?First of all, CAN we? Is it even possible? In today&#8217;s homily I told a story of someone who demonstrated that it can be done &#8211; a very ordinary Christian fellow. In fact, it is\u00a0only\u00a0ever done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}