{"id":3547,"date":"2021-07-30T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2021-07-24T17:32:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T23:32:18","slug":"be-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3547","title":{"rendered":"Be There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?page_id=156\">Join the Adventure<\/a>, is based on a story a friend told me about a 90-year-old lady who moved into a nursing home, noticed that the residents had nothing to do on Sunday afternoons, and started an informal story-sharing session. This led to her starting Bible studies among the residents and her efforts grew into significant ministry. My friend summarized her actions as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Be there<\/li><li>Pay attention<\/li><li>Do what you can<\/li><li>Tell the truth<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once when I shared from that outline, my 20-year-old grandson said, &#8220;Great sermon, GrandBob. Except for the first point. The first point is stupid! Everyone is where they are!&#8221; Actually, they&#8217;re not. Most people spend their time wishing they were somewhere else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was pleased to see Heather Holleman&#8217;s July 7 blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/heatherholleman.com\/2021\/07\/all-there\/\">All There<\/a>. She started by quoting <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Elliot\">Jim Elliott<\/a>, one of the five missionaries killed in Ecuador in 1956:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. <\/em>&#8211; Jim Elliott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heather continues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Wherever I am, I want to be all there.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Being \u201call there\u201d means so many things to me: it means not always wishing for a different situation; it means fully embracing the gifts God gives in every place; and it means actively seeking to discover those gifts that sometimes come hidden or disguised. It means loving others fully without focusing on myself. I want to be \u201call there\u201d for other people around me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I\u2019m all there to observe the nature around me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I\u2019m all there to listen to others and really see them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I\u2019m all there to receive what God has.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I\u2019m all there with finding friendship with God all day long. He\u2019s \u201call there\u201d all the time.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The apostle Paul also supports the &#8220;be all there&#8221; concept:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And don&#8217;t be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God&#8217;s place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there&#8230; (1 Corinthians 7.17, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first book, Join the Adventure, is based on a story a friend told me about a 90-year-old lady who moved into a nursing home, noticed that the residents had nothing to do on Sunday afternoons, and started an informal story-sharing session. This led to her starting Bible studies among the residents and her efforts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=3547\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be There<\/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-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Vd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547","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=3547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3547\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}