{"id":348,"date":"2013-12-10T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/?p=348"},"modified":"2013-12-10T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T00:48:02","slug":"playmobil-advent-day-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Playmobil Advent &#8211; Day Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today\u2019s boiling pot, stand and fire are from Playmobil kit #4884 and can be viewed\/ordered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.playmobil.ca\/on\/demandware.store\/Sites-CA-Site\/en_CA\/Product-Show?pid=4884#q=christmas&amp;start=11\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In setting up today&#8217;s scene, my daughter wanted to put Mary by the pot, but I insisted that Joseph would be more useful at the pot boiling water than she would be. \u00a0Having been a part of a temporarily unassisted birth, I can better imagine what Joseph went through in that setting. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t boil any water, but if there had been extra time, that would have been a good way to keep myself busy and to keep my mind off of the obvious task at hand. Maybe Abraham was just as clueless as Joseph and I were.<\/p>\n<p>Day 10 \u2013 <b>Genesis 15: 1-6<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>1<\/b> After this, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: \u201cDo not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>2<\/b> But Abram said, \u201cSovereign Lord, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?\u201d <b>3<\/b> And Abram said, \u201cYou have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>4<\/b> Then the word of the Lord came to him: \u201cThis man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir.\u201d <b>5<\/b> He took him outside and said, \u201cLook up at the heavens and count the stars\u2014if indeed you can count them.\u201d Then he said to him, \u201cSo shall your offspring be.\u201d <b>6<\/b> Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s boiling pot, stand and fire are from Playmobil kit #4884 and can be viewed\/ordered\u00a0here. In setting up today&#8217;s scene, my daughter wanted to put Mary by the pot, but I insisted that Joseph would be more useful at the pot boiling water than she would be. \u00a0Having been a part of a temporarily unassisted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":349,"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,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resourcing-the-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirdway.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}