{"id":4011,"date":"2021-12-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4011"},"modified":"2021-11-24T20:14:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:14:37","slug":"third-sunday-in-advent-joy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4011","title":{"rendered":"Third Sunday of Advent: Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joy: that&#8217;s something else we have a shortage of. Advent seems to be the answer to everything, doesn&#8217;t it? Teen suicide is up, for example: no <em>Hope<\/em>. And a lot of folks spend a good bit of their time sniping at others on social media: no <em>Love<\/em>. And <em>Joy<\/em>? As they say in New York, <strong>Fuhgeddaboudit<\/strong>!*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Candle-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Candle-2.jpg?resize=169%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4012\" width=\"169\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Candle-2.jpg?w=338&amp;ssl=1 338w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/drbobewell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-Candle-2.jpg?resize=125%2C300&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Third Sunday of Advent: Joy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world was just as messed up when Jesus came, and he brought <em>Joy<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. (John 15.11, NKJV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>* Forget about it!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy: that&#8217;s something else we have a shortage of. Advent seems to be the answer to everything, doesn&#8217;t it? Teen suicide is up, for example: no Hope. And a lot of folks spend a good bit of their time sniping at others on social media: no Love. And Joy? As they say in New York, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=4011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Third Sunday of Advent: Joy<\/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-4011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-12H","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011","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=4011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4011\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}