{"id":509,"date":"2017-03-17T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=509"},"modified":"2017-03-17T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:29:17","slug":"journey-journal-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Journey Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed the agitation in the\u00a0 atmosphere these days,\u00a0 It is like the whole world is about to blow.\u00a0 Short tempers, impatience, anger, debate, suspicion, distrust, blaming, violence on the brink everywhere.\u00a0 Not\u00a0something\u00a0 we want to be drawn into.\u00a0 Black against white, male against female, gay against straight, rich against poor, Muslim against Christian, children against\u00a0parents, banks against their customers,\u00a0\u00a0government against citizens, nations against nations.\u00a0 You name it someone is at odds with some one else.\u00a0 Money, control, and power the goal of so many we are all at risk.\u00a0 \u00a0The matter of tolerance\u00a0 is not seen as much as it is talked about.\u00a0\u00a0 The gays say the\u00a0straits are intolerant but they are breaking laws to make\u00a0laws that make others subject to their view.\u00a0 Who deliberately goes to a citizen that disagrees with them to destroy them for none compliance.\u00a0\u00a0 Muslims can pray in school but Christians are a threat to all other choices, why?\u00a0 A lying, stealing, drug\u00a0dealing crook can be set free but a snitch can die for the offense of a honest answer when asked.\u00a0 What is really going on?\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone appears to be fighting for their rights.\u00a0 Exactly what right?\u00a0 To have our way at the expense of others?\u00a0 To force our will on others, how did we get this right? How is it affecting the world around us?\u00a0 I ask these questions to get us all to slow down and consider\u00a0what we are fighting for and what we are willing to do to win.\u00a0 Worse what will be the result of our victory.\u00a0 Are\u00a0we really as right as we think we are?\u00a0 The world and yes America is in the eye of a storm that wants to destroy us from the inside out.\u00a0 The agenda is to turn us on each other and watch the fall out.\u00a0 It is time to pray more, contend for peace, resist strife and division, and unite against enemies foreign and domestic.\u00a0 Time we\u00a0 return to our original intentions and stop making the same mistakes.\u00a0 Words like mercy, compassions. accountability, and integrity are more important\u00a0than tolerance.\u00a0 Some things should not be tolerated when they hurt\u00a0 a nation and the generations to come.\u00a0 I invite questions and dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you noticed the agitation in the\u00a0 atmosphere these days,\u00a0 It is like the whole world is about to blow.\u00a0 Short tempers, impatience, anger, debate, suspicion, distrust, blaming, violence on the brink everywhere.\u00a0 Not\u00a0something\u00a0 we want to be drawn into.\u00a0 Black against white, male against female, gay against straight, rich against poor, Muslim against Christian, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/?p=509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journey Journal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gacbooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}