{"id":5502,"date":"2021-11-02T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2022-07-11T18:47:39","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T22:47:39","slug":"our-holiday-message-series-this-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/our-holiday-message-series-this-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Holiday Message Series: This Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our next message series, This Joy, will begin on Sunday November 7th and will run through January 2nd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Joy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be nothing more powerful, or brave, than refusing to let the world steal our joy. Sadly, joy thieves are everywhere, these days. Whether it\u2019s headlines in the news, illnesses and loss, hate and injustice, climate disasters\u2026 or just our boss or our partner or our kid\u2019s bad mood\u2026 we\u2019re tempted to shut the doors, change the channel, and hide. How can we connect, instead, to a deep joy that has no need to hide? What kind of joy can we rely on, not just to cope \u2013 but to find the strength we need to face this world as it is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the Resource Guide provided by our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/more\/ministries\/spiritual-development\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2729\">Spiritual Development Ministry<\/a> below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/this-joy-message-series-resources.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Embed of this-joy-message-series-resources..\"><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/this-joy-message-series-resources.pdf\">this-joy-message-series-resources<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/this-joy-message-series-resources.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next message series, This Joy, will begin on Sunday November 7th and will run through January 2nd. This Joy There may be nothing more powerful, or brave, than refusing to let the world steal our joy. Sadly, joy thieves are everywhere, these days. Whether it\u2019s headlines in the news, illnesses and loss, hate and injustice, climate disasters\u2026 or just our boss or our partner or our kid\u2019s bad mood\u2026 we\u2019re tempted to shut the doors, change the channel, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministriesandteams","tag-sd","ctfw-has-image"],"featured_image_urls":{"medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-300x169.png","large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1024x576.png","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-150x150.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-768x432.png","1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1536x864.png","post-thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-720x480.png","saved-section":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1680x1050.png","saved-banner":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1600x400.png","saved-square":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-720x720.png","saved-square-large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-1024x1024.png","saved-square-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-160x160.png","saved-rect-medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-480x320.png","saved-rect-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joy-A-2021-FACEBOOK-200x133.png"},"appp_media":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}