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<\/a>Sometimes that cup of cold water,<\/em><\/div>\nSometimes we Christians<\/em> have a tendency to be<\/em><\/p>\n perhaps we should<\/em><\/p>\n and listen<\/em><\/p>\n (Anonymous)<\/p>\n I read this in a book and really liked it. It made me think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes that cup of cold water, turns out to be a cup of hot coffee, and what we’re asked to do is to pour it . . . and to listen. Sometimes we Christiansin our enthusiasmthink we were askedto save the world,when what we were asked to dois to go into itand tell God’s storyto …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-Q6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
in our enthusiasm<\/em>
think we were asked<\/em>
to save the world,<\/em>
when what we were asked to do<\/em>
is to go into it<\/em>
and tell God’s story<\/em>
to people in need of<\/em>
some good news.<\/em>
Anxious activists forget<\/em>
that just listening is an act<\/em>
of compassion.<\/em>
Driven disciples forget<\/em>
that just listening is an act<\/em>
of faithfulness.<\/em>
Guilty givers forget<\/em><\/p>\n