{"id":6846,"date":"2023-05-09T11:24:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2024-05-28T17:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T21:54:35","slug":"our-may-message-series-the-muppet-theory-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/our-may-message-series-the-muppet-theory-of-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Our May Message Series: The Muppet Theory of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2012, a writer for Slate magazine made a provocative suggestion\u2026 that everyone in the world can be classified into one of two categories: Order Muppets, and Chaos Muppets. Order Muppets (think Bert, Kermit, Sam the Eagle) keep things organized and on track, while Chaos Muppets (Ernie, Cookie Monster, Gonzo) bring big bursts of energy and creativity. The world needs both in balance, of course \u2013 some of the oldest wisdom stories are about finding ways to resolve that eternal dance, between order and chaos. In our *all-ages* <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLD5gJLVwEsuliTUDc8CdRYKkMrBhvB4Ne\">series for May<\/a>, we\u2019ll explore some of those stories, and learn how to keep dancing, no matter what kind of Muppets surround us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is our Resource Guide for this message series, full of supplemental reading, videos, songs, podcasts and more, to help you more deeply connect with this series.<\/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\/2023\/05\/Muppet_Theory_of_Everything_Message_Series_Resources.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Muppet_Theory_of_Everything_Message_Series_Resources.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f8d80312-e605-4b97-b9ce-d5a77807366d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Muppet_Theory_of_Everything_Message_Series_Resources.pdf\">Muppet_Theory_of_Everything_Message_Series_Resources<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Muppet_Theory_of_Everything_Message_Series_Resources.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f8d80312-e605-4b97-b9ce-d5a77807366d\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, a writer for Slate magazine made a provocative suggestion\u2026 that everyone in the world can be classified into one of two categories: Order Muppets, and Chaos Muppets. Order Muppets (think Bert, Kermit, Sam the Eagle) keep things organized and on track, while Chaos Muppets (Ernie, Cookie Monster, Gonzo) bring big bursts of energy and creativity. The world needs both in balance, of course \u2013 some of the oldest wisdom stories are about finding ways to resolve that eternal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[90,103,101],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministriesandteams","tag-sd","tag-yb","tag-ys","ctfw-has-image"],"featured_image_urls":{"medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-300x169.png","large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-1024x576.png","thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-150x150.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-768x432.png","post-thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-720x480.png","saved-banner":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-1280x400.png","saved-square":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-720x720.png","saved-square-large":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-1024x1024.png","saved-square-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-160x160.png","saved-rect-medium":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-480x320.png","saved-rect-small":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/thumbnail_Muppet-8-2-final-200x133.png"},"appp_media":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6849,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/6849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellspringsuu.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}