{"id":8439,"date":"2024-12-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2024-12-09T08:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T15:00:35","slug":"its-friday-13th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8439","title":{"rendered":"It’s Friday 13th…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

And it’s my birthday, born on Friday, December 13, 1946. You can see my reflections on the number 13, written the last time my birthday fell on a Friday, 5 years ago<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of getting old(er), I experienced a first on November 24. Once or twice a year I preach a Sunday afternoon vespers at a large retirement home in Colorado Springs. When my friend Jeannie who arranges for the guest speakers called, she extended two invitations: one to speak, the other to move in! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess you’re old when the retirement home you used to visit for preaching considers you old enough to join them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told her we thought about where we should live and had decided to stay right where we are, but thanks for the invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m in good health and definitely not retiring…yet. Yesterday I did a wedding at a neighbor’s house, performing the ceremony and playing a bit of piano at the reception. Tomorrow I play piano for the Men’s Christmas brunch at First Presbyterian Church, Colorado Springs. (https:\/\/www.bobplayspiano.com\/<\/a>) And I still write the daily Ewellogy and invest in the lives of leaders and growing disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because the stakes are so high, even though you\u2019re up-to-date on all this truth and practice it inside and out, I\u2019m not going to let up for a minute in calling you to attention before it. This is the post to which I\u2019ve been assigned\u2014keeping you alert with frequent reminders\u2014and I\u2019m sticking to it as long as I live. (2 Peter 1.12, 13, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And it’s my birthday, born on Friday, December 13, 1946. You can see my reflections on the number 13, written the last time my birthday fell on a Friday, 5 years ago. Speaking of getting old(er), I experienced a first on November 24. Once or twice a year I preach a Sunday afternoon vespers at … Continue reading It’s Friday 13th…<\/span> →<\/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-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-2c7","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8518,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions\/8518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}