{"id":15811,"date":"2018-12-05T01:05:54","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T07:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2018-12-09T17:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:35:57","slug":"wonderful-counselor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/wonderful-counselor\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful, Counsellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s BYU devotional was given by Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. I am glad I listened to it. He acknowledged the grief over the tragedy at BYU this week and pointed us to the scripture in Isaiah which lists some of the titles of Christ, &#8220;Wonderful, Counsellor&#8230;,&#8221; with an emphasis on the title of Counsellor. He also recited every word of the hymn, <em>Where Can I Turn for Peace<\/em>? His words were healing. I learned during his talk that joy is a state of being. Joy is a godly focus, not just happy, fun feelings. He invited us to study the sources of joy spoken of in the scriptures and to share the joy in Christ with others.<\/p>\n<p>After the devotional, I put the letters J-O-Y on the wall. This will be a record that God inspired a prophet today to remind us of joy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181205_105045420.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-15825\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181205_105045420-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"880\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181205_105045420-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_20181205_105045420-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I chose these advent calendar scriptures and their order in 2015 for someone who was suffering. This year, I am sharing them online. Here is the scripture Elder Bednar quoted at the BYU devotional:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15828\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-6.jpg 362w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-6-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the scripture for December 5. We rejoice in Christ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15798\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-5.jpg 362w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/December-5-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s BYU devotional was given by Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. I am glad I listened to it. He acknowledged the grief over the tragedy at BYU this week and pointed us to the scripture in Isaiah which lists some of the titles of Christ, &#8220;Wonderful, Counsellor&#8230;,&#8221; with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/wonderful-counselor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wonderful, Counsellor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,36,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byu","category-church","category-jesus-christ","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15811"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15857,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions\/15857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}