{"id":154,"date":"2016-09-17T09:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/?p=154"},"modified":"2016-09-17T09:47:53","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T14:47:53","slug":"they-that-work-as-not-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/2016\/09\/17\/they-that-work-as-not-working\/","title":{"rendered":"They that work, as not working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is little more satisfying than a job well done. Finishing a day of hard work makes me feel like I&#8217;ve earned an evening of rest. Conversely, there&#8217;s not much worse than an impending deadline to take the joy out of relaxing.\u00a0The knowledge of homework due on Monday has plagued\u00a0many a weekend during my school days.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>School is over, and I have enjoyed the freedom that graduation brings. But that same feeling that I&#8217;ve left something unfinished has returned.\u00a0Each evening, there is the tension of relaxing after a good days work, and the need to contact people and churches to find ministry partners. There&#8217;s only one thing to do&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Next week is my last week on the job! Instead of finding underground utilities, I will be able to put that energy into locating ministry partners. Instead of splitting attention between two areas of life, my attention can be focused on attaining one goal: On to Brazil!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/files\/2015\/02\/Cover-Photo-Round-Huts-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover-Photo-Round-Huts\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/files\/2015\/02\/Cover-Photo-Round-Huts-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/files\/2015\/02\/Cover-Photo-Round-Huts-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/files\/2015\/02\/Cover-Photo-Round-Huts.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is little more satisfying than a job well done. Finishing a day of hard work makes me feel like I&#8217;ve earned an evening of rest. Conversely, there&#8217;s not much worse than an impending deadline to take the joy out of relaxing.\u00a0The knowledge of homework due on Monday has plagued\u00a0many a weekend during my school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,637,1419,478],"class_list":{"0":"post-154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-new-tribes-mission","9":"tag-plans","10":"tag-work","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/james-christensen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}