{"id":2680,"date":"2020-11-02T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2020-10-31T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T20:13:48","slug":"silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2680","title":{"rendered":"Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the last of our meditations on my friend Randy Raysbrook&#8217;s informal psalm of hope. Thanks Randy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"447\" width=\"474\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image-10.png?resize=474%2C447&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I say nothing.<br>Lord, you say, \u201cThat is a good start.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scriptures are clear that often we would do better being silent than jabbering away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! (Psalm 46.10, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And now, finally, GOD answered Job from the eye of a violent storm. He said: &#8220;Why do you confuse the issue? Why do you talk without knowing what you&#8217;re talking about?&#8221; (Job 38.1, 2, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. (Ecclesiastes 5.2, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last of our meditations on my friend Randy Raysbrook&#8217;s informal psalm of hope. Thanks Randy. I say nothing.Lord, you say, \u201cThat is a good start.\u201d Scriptures are clear that often we would do better being silent than jabbering away. Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8X9bo-silence","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2681,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}