{"id":26240,"date":"2025-02-07T13:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theme-dev.cmsmasters.net\/newspaper\/?p=26240"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T13:00:16","slug":"four-things-our-church-should-still-focus-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/2025\/02\/07\/four-things-our-church-should-still-focus-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Things Our Church Should Still Focus On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">There is the adage that \u201cchange is the only constant\u201d and most of us would agree that the past few years have been exceptionally turbulent. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/73-open-post-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/73-open-post-11.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/73-open-post-15.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia. The European languages are members.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. The European languages are members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-cmsmasters-colors-alternate-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is the adage that \u201cchange is the only constant\u201d and most of us would agree that the past few years have been exceptionally turbulent.<\/p>\n<cite>Christian Brown<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now. When, while the lovely valley teems with vapour around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Search My Blog for More Info<\/h5>\n\n\n<form role=\"search\" method=\"get\" action=\"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/\" class=\"wp-block-search__button-outside wp-block-search__text-button aligncenter wp-block-search\"    ><label class=\"wp-block-search__label screen-reader-text\" for=\"wp-block-search__input-1\" >Search<\/label><div class=\"wp-block-search__inside-wrapper\"  style=\"width: 65%\"><input class=\"wp-block-search__input\" id=\"wp-block-search__input-1\" placeholder=\"\" value=\"\" type=\"search\" name=\"s\" required \/><button aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"wp-block-search__button wp-element-button\" type=\"submit\" >Search<\/button><\/div><\/form>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is the adage that \u201cchange is the only constant\u201d and most of us would agree that the past few years have been exceptionally turbulent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-default"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52080,"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26240\/revisions\/52080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parish-church.cmsmasters.studio\/living-water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}