{"id":393,"date":"2010-11-02T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chadstutzman.net\/?p=393"},"modified":"2010-11-02T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T15:41:00","slug":"may-god-bless-you-with-discomfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"May God Bless You With Discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today in <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelhyatt.com\/\">Michael Hyatt&#8217;s Blog<\/a> and thought it would be worth sharing.  This is a different way of looking at the world around us.  I have been challenged lately to love people better.  Jesus told us to love others like we love ourselves.  I am not sure I can say that I do that every day.  So here is a prayer for me and for you:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">May God bless you with discomfort<br \/>At easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships,<br \/>So that you may live deep within your heart.<\/p>\n<p>May God bless you with anger<br \/>At injustice, oppression and exploitation of people<br \/>So that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.<\/p>\n<p>May God bless you with tears<br \/>To shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger, and war,<br \/>So that you may reach out your hand to comfort them<br \/>And turn their pain into joy.<\/p>\n<p>And may God bless you with enough foolishness<br \/>To believe that you can make a difference in the world,<br \/>So that you can do what others claim cannot be done<br \/>To bring justice and kindness to our children and the poor.<\/p>\n<p>Amen<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope that was as inspiring and challenging to you as it was for me.  I want to challenge you to start praying that prayer and asking God to make you uncomfortable.  Compassion and love for people is not a feeling, it is an action &#8211; Go make a difference!<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this today in Michael Hyatt&#8217;s Blog and thought it would be worth sharing. This is a different way of looking at the world around us. I have been challenged lately to love people better. Jesus told us to love others like we love ourselves. I am not sure I can say that I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;May God Bless You With Discomfort&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compassion","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}