{"id":3704,"date":"2008-05-05T07:17:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2019-12-30T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T07:00:18","slug":"re-my-life-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-my-life-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"re: My Life Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I shared my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3683\">Life Canon<\/a>&#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to add the following (which I recently added to the sidebar of my blog)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what you&#8217;d call this, but I adapted it from something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmclaren.net\">Brian McLaren<\/a> wrote in <em>Everything Must Change<\/em>. It started as a challenge for our community group and its become more of a personal challenge to me each day &#8211; especially with it posted on my cubicle wall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>imagine if suddenly:<\/strong><br \/>\nrather than seeking revenge, you sought reconciliation<br \/>\nrather than repaying violence with violence, you sought creative transforming nonviolent alternatives<br \/>\nrather than focusing on external conformity to moral codes, you were internally transformed by love<br \/>\nrather than loving insiders and hating outsiders, you welcomed outsiders into a new &#8220;us&#8221; and &#8220;we&#8221;<br \/>\nrather than anxiety about money or security or pleasure, you trusted ourselves to the care of God<br \/>\nrather than living for wealth, you lived for God who loves all people, including our enemies<br \/>\nrather than hating our enemies and competitors, you loved them and did unto them not as they have done unto you &#8211; or before they do unto you &#8211; but as you wish they would do for you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what is your Life Canon? I tag: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanolog.blogspot.com\">Thomas<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/laurie\/\">Laurie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rmfo-blogs.com\/brandi\/\">Brandi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dollyep.blogspot.com\/\">Dollye<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dailyfunnel.blogspot.com\/\">Eric<\/a>, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.encounterthis.com\/blog\">Brian<\/span>, <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/smileyalf\/Smiley_and_Sharis_Website\/Blog\/Blog.html\">Smiley<\/span> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevindhendricks.com\/\">Kevin<\/a>.<br \/>\n(<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/therivermerchant.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/my-theological-canon.html\">here are the rules<\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I shared my Life Canon&#8230; I&#8217;d like to add the following (which I recently added to the sidebar of my blog)&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what you&#8217;d call this, but I adapted it from something Brian McLaren wrote in Everything Must Change. It started as a challenge for our community group and its become &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/re-my-life-canon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">re: My Life Canon<\/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":[18,19],"tags":[1034,1035],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-reflections","tag-challenge","tag-life-canon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-XK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14219,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/revisions\/14219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}