{"id":120,"date":"2005-05-11T11:19:08","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T10:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-11-26T01:50:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T01:50:44","slug":"living-comfortably-with-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Living Comfortably with Uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a friend recently state that &#8216;we need to live comfortably with uncertaintly&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>As human beings we like the security of knowing where our lives our going, how we are going to provide for ourselves. We even like the idea of knowing loads of theological stuff. Somehow this insulation from surprise makes us feel confortable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/photos\/nofear-tshirt.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"92\" alt=\"No Fear T-Shirt Logo\" title=\"No Fear T-Shirt Logo\" class=\"alignright\" \/>BUT &#8211; surely we should be <strong>uncomfortable<\/strong> with the false security we give ourselves? Surely we should only find comfort in His security? Comfort from The Comforter &#8211; without having to know the future, without having to have extensive plans or knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>And there I was with my &#8216;No Fear&#8217; T-shirt on, feeling as scared as the next person!<strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i-to-i.irexnet.com\/?max_manus\">Max Manus video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As human beings we like the security of knowing where our lives our going, how we are going to provide for ourselves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=120\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}