{"id":18977,"date":"2020-12-02T08:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=18977"},"modified":"2020-12-02T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:52:12","slug":"advent-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/advent-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This December, my Advent theme is Hope. It&#8217;s my plan to share something each day leading up to Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken.<\/p><cite>Jacob 4:6<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/President-Nelson-studying-the-scriptures.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18978\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/President-Nelson-studying-the-scriptures.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/President-Nelson-studying-the-scriptures-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photo of President Nelson inspires me. I think searching the scriptures has been the most important way I have found hope. In this practice, I try to be as faithful as a prophet. When the kids were younger and finding time to read the scriptures was harder, or now, in an emergency, I try to close my eyes and recite a scripture in my mind when I can&#8217;t read. The scripture I recite most often is Psalm 19:7. I memorized it in high school, and have repeated it on the most challenging days for 30 years. It&#8217;s the closest thing I have to a mantra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This December, my Advent theme is Hope. It&#8217;s my plan to share something each day leading up to Christmas. Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken. Jacob 4:6 This photo of President Nelson &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/advent-day-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advent Day 2<\/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":[33,40,20,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-of-mormon","category-hope","category-life-according-to-angela","category-old-testament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977","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=18977"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}