{"id":216893521,"date":"2011-10-25T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893521"},"modified":"2011-10-25T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T05:38:03","slug":"while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216893521","title":{"rendered":"While driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My prayers – and the ways in which I pray – are many and varied but increasingly I feel drawn to the ‘expectant silence’ of Quaker prayer I grew up with. \u00a0Driving to work today after the excitement and drama of the long weekend, I was trying to still my mind and ‘wait upon the Lord’.<\/p>\n

As I came to the top of the hill, a movement on the other side of the carriageway caught my eye. \u00a0I glanced across and saw a clutch of tiny ducklings were frantically running in circles on the edge of the road. \u00a0Snatching a second glance, I saw what I knew I’d see next – their mother’s body lying smashed on the white line a little further along the road.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t help but feel\u00a0for the orphaned ducklings and, as my heart softened, I immediately realised that I was being presented with two distinct pictures. \u00a0The first, a stark snapshot a sacrifice made so that others could live; the second, a metaphor for how we often behave, running around lost and bereft without a guiding presence.<\/p>\n

As I drove on, I thought of a worship song lyric I’ve often sung – ‘break my heart for what breaks yours’ – and I realised I had been taken at my word, my heart breaking for His sacrifice and our need for Him. \u00a0More and more, I am drawn to conclude that my faith journey is experiential above all else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My prayers – and the ways in which I pray – are many and varied but increasingly I feel drawn to the ‘expectant silence’ of Quaker prayer I grew up with. \u00a0Driving to work today after the excitement and drama of the long weekend, I was trying to still my mind and ‘wait upon the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25,264],"tags":[755,569],"class_list":["post-216893521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-life","category-ponderings","tag-faith","tag-sacrifice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216893521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216893522,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893521\/revisions\/216893522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216893521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216893521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216893521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}