{"id":4796,"date":"2020-04-09T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=4796"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:57:54","slug":"shelter-in-god-a-meditation-for-covid-19-isolation-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/shelter-in-god-a-meditation-for-covid-19-isolation-april-9","title":{"rendered":"Shelter in God: A Meditation for COVID-19 Isolation | April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Samuel Shaw\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sufferingchristi00vint\/page\/258\/mode\/2up\">A\nWelcome to the Plague<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI beseech you, Christian, be not content to say you have\nchosen God for your chief good, but pursue after him as such, without grudging,\nand without ceasing, longing to be as much one with him, in a participation of\ndivine perfections, as our created natures are capable of. Maintain a holy and\nsecret striving of soul towards this blessed object continually, as a thing\nmoves towards its center, as a soul ought to endeavor to accomplish its own\nperfection; stand not gazing upon a heaven to come, but labor to draw down all\nthat peace, joy, love, purity, which heaven is, into your own souls, by growing\nup into the life of God daily.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shelter in God: A Meditation for COVID-19 Isolation | April 9\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jW0hyEENuA8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Samuel Shaw\u2019s A Welcome to the Plague: \u201cI beseech you, Christian, be not content to say you have chosen God for your chief good, but pursue after him as such, without grudging, and without ceasing, longing to be as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/shelter-in-god-a-meditation-for-covid-19-isolation-april-9\">Continue reading <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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4797,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4796\/revisions\/4797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}