{"id":21,"date":"2005-03-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-05T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T13:02:33","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/2005\/03\/01\/good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2005\/03\/1274_19741.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2005\/03\/1274_19741.jpg\" alt=\"Fun with Craig &#038; Claire\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Driving down to Manila Good Friday morning, provided many opportunities for us to be thankful that we understand what Christ did for us on the cross.&nbsp; As we witnessed so many people trying to pay for their sins in various painful ways, we were reminded visually that Christ paid our debt many years ago.&nbsp; What an exciting day when these dear folks will hear and understand that message also.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing Craig and Claire&#8217;s smiling faces as we walked into the airport arrival area sure was wonderful!!&nbsp; We are extremely thankful that they are able to be with us for the next 2 weeks!!&nbsp; We have several activities planned for the next few days, but our greatest joy is just being with them again.<\/p>\n<p>Their arrival time of 1:30 p.m., and very little traffic on Good Friday, were two perfect components for us to be able to drive down in the morning, turn around and come home in the afternoon &#8211; a first for us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;We were back in time for a pot luck supper here on the center.&nbsp; Four families from our church in Manila had come up for the holiday.&nbsp; After fellowshipping around the dinner table, we gathered around a bonfire where Rocky shared this testimony of how God brought us over here.&nbsp; This was followed be a precious time of communion.<\/p>\n<p>Sadness, gladness and rejoicing all had their part in this special day &#8211; all emotions the Lord uses to keep our eyes focused on Him.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadness, gladness and rejoicing all had their part in this special day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}