{"id":8667,"date":"2012-04-20T06:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T11:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2013-01-01T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T00:15:54","slug":"worldview-problems-and-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/worldview-problems-and-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Worldview: Problems and Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8668\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/661px-Geoz_wb_en.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8668\" title=\"661px-Geoz_wb_en.svg\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/661px-Geoz_wb_en.svg_-300x272.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/661px-Geoz_wb_en.svg_-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/661px-Geoz_wb_en.svg_-350x318.png 350w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/661px-Geoz_wb_en.svg_.png 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">public domain image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if much of the time, without knowing it, we operate as if the top model is correct. The one that puts us in the middle. We just ending up seeing the world and treating other people as if they revolve around us.<\/p>\n<p>The second model is correct, but actually incomplete. That&#8217;s because compared to the known universe it&#8217;s hardly a spec. Our stories and even our problems are small compared to what&#8217;s really going on. Our stories and our pain matter, but they are not the center.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Enjoy your weekend. Keep things in perspective, okay?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some poetry for reflection:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Psalms 8:3-5<br \/>\n&#8220;When I consider your heavens,<br \/>\nthe work of your fingers,<br \/>\nthe moon and the stars,<br \/>\nwhich you have set in place,<br \/>\nwhat is man that you are mindful of him,<br \/>\nthe son of man that you care for him?<br \/>\nYou made him a little lower than the heavenly beings<br \/>\nand crowned him with glory and honor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Our stories and our pain matter, but they are not the center.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[6535,13,17,37,1927,5187,51,56,2723,6109],"class_list":["post-8667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-authors","tag-christianity","tag-community","tag-hope","tag-king-david","tag-lament","tag-ministry","tag-pain","tag-psalms","tag-sgb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11177,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8667\/revisions\/11177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}