{"id":566,"date":"2011-06-09T14:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=566"},"modified":"2011-06-09T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T06:35:53","slug":"worthwhile-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/worthwhile-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Worthwhile afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m glad this afternoon I met brother Peter.<\/p>\n

And I’m glad that the last time I didn’t bring up the issue about our differences.<\/p>\n

Now I can see that sometimes it’s not worthwhile to pursue correctness (often we don’t have full knowledge as well), at the expense of greater thing like relationship. One may argue that truth is more important than relationship. I think both is equally important. Hence in order to pursue both, one need to show grace & wisdom.<\/p>\n

His encouragement to me is simple. Jesus is with my wife. Jesus is my partner at work. And he quotes from 1 Peter 5<\/strong>, to cast our worries on Him, and he will care for us. Very simple words. With some of his personal testimonies of worries & God’s care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m glad this afternoon I met brother Peter. And I’m glad that the last time I didn’t bring up the issue about our differences. Now I can see that sometimes it’s not worthwhile to pursue correctness (often we don’t have … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-peter","category-encouraged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":516,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/in-the-light-of-eternity-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":566,"position":0},"title":"In the light of eternity (part 1)","author":"clay","date":"June 20, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Came for morning session of Go4th Mission on Sat. 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