{"id":12649,"date":"2013-12-19T21:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T03:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=12649"},"modified":"2013-12-19T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T03:08:24","slug":"the-faith-i-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-faith-i-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"The faith I desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this on most of my social networks this morning &#8211; but it bears repeating here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ronniesmithlibya.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">From Anita Smith<\/a>, the wife of teacher Ronnie Smith, who was killed last month in Libya:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I hear people speaking with hate, anger and blame over Ronnie&#8217;s death, but that&#8217;s not what Ronnie would want. Ronnie would want his death to be an opportunity for us to show one another love and forgiveness, because that&#8217;s what God has shown us.<\/p>\n<p>I want all of you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all of the people of Libya \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to know I am praying for the peace and prosperity of Libya. May Ronnie&#8217;s blood, shed on Libyan soil, encourage peace and reconciliation between the Libyan people and God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite what you may be seeing elsewhere in your social feeds today, this is the faith that I strive for.<\/p>\n<p>This is the Christianity I hold to so dearly &#8212; loving neighbors and enemies alike.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ll never live it out 100% but please know that THIS is what I&#8217;m striving for.<\/p>\n<p>See more:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ZJixTyF5f4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I shared this on most of my social networks this morning &#8211; but it bears repeating here. From Anita Smith, the wife of teacher Ronnie Smith, who was killed last month in Libya: I hear people speaking with hate, anger and blame over Ronnie&#8217;s death, but that&#8217;s not what Ronnie would want. Ronnie would want &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/the-faith-i-desire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The faith I desire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The faith I desire","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[993,1524,4592,1599,4591],"class_list":["post-12649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-forgive","tag-forgiveness","tag-libya","tag-love-wins","tag-ronnie-smith"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-3i1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12651,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12649\/revisions\/12651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}