{"id":1389,"date":"2020-01-28T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2020-01-28T11:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T11:54:11","slug":"turn-aside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Turn Aside&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Ortberg in his book <em>The Life You&#8217;ve Always Wanted<\/em> talks about &#8220;turning aside&#8221; for God. As Moses &#8220;turned aside&#8221; to look at the burning bush, so must we be willing to interrupt our daily routine and pay attention to the presence of God. Today I was <em>supposed<\/em> to be in Second Kings according to by Bible reading plan. Instead, I turned aside, and went to Leviticus (of all places), and shared some scripture via email with a new Christian who is hurting from years of sexual abuse. She was on my heart this morning. And instead of plowing through my scheduled Bible reading, I turned aside, and went somewhere else, hopefully following where God was leading me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">&#8220;Earth&#8217;s crammed with heaven,<br> And every common bush afire with God,<br> But only he who sees takes off his shoes;<br> The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.\u201d<br>~Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ortberg in his book The Life You&#8217;ve Always Wanted talks about &#8220;turning aside&#8221; for God. As Moses &#8220;turned aside&#8221; to look at the burning bush, so must we be willing to interrupt our daily routine and pay attention to the presence of God. Today I was supposed to be in Second Kings according to &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=1389\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-1389","6":"format-standard","7":"category-christianity","8":"category-sf100"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}