{"id":23,"date":"2020-12-23T22:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T03:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/?p=23"},"modified":"2021-11-05T16:18:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:18:45","slug":"beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/2020\/12\/23\/beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometime last year, I was thinking what I could do to be more purposeful in my fellowship with God.\u00a0 I always get up early and like clockwork am out the door, in my car listening to a podcast of a teaching\/sermon.\u00a0 By the time it ends, and before I arrive at the office, I have time to think about what was shared and also time to pray.  Now one may think that this is all well and good, however, I didn&#8217;t feel so &#8220;complete&#8221; in my quiet time.\u00a0 Between the road noise, the distractions of the wild animals, there just wasn&#8217;t much ability to focus on Gods word.\u00a0 I finally decided to hit the pause button on my routine and just sit quietly and read my daily devotionals; read the bible and just pray and listen.  I needed the time to simply be still, wait and listen.  Why not with a Cup of Coffee?  Begin, Coffee at the Cross! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime last year, I was thinking what I could do to be more purposeful in my fellowship with God.\u00a0 I always get up early and like clockwork am out the door, in my car listening to a podcast of a teaching\/sermon.\u00a0 By the time it ends, and before I arrive at the office, I have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/2020\/12\/23\/beginnings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beginnings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coffeeatthecross.com\/coffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}