Imagine if suddenly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nrather than seeking revenge, you sought reconciliation
\nrather than repaying violence with violence, you sought creative transforming nonviolent alternatives
\nrather than focusing on external conformity to moral codes, you were internally transformed by love
\nrather than loving insiders and hating outsiders, you welcomed outsiders into a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153us\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\nrather than anxiety about money or security or pleasure, you trusted ourselves to the care of God
\nrather than living for wealth, you lived for God who loves all people, including our enemies
\nrather than hating our enemies and competitors, you loved them and did unto them not as they have done unto you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or before they do unto you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but as you wish they would do for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Imagine if suddenly\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 rather than seeking revenge, you sought reconciliation rather than repaying violence with violence, you sought creative transforming nonviolent alternatives rather than focusing on external conformity to moral codes, you were internally transformed by love rather than loving insiders and hating outsiders, you welcomed outsiders into a new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153us\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rather than … Continue reading Imagine…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[560,18,17],"tags":[986],"class_list":["post-3653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-faith","category-take-action","tag-imagine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sEnSo-imagine","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653","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=3653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}