{"id":290,"date":"2006-02-23T21:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T02:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/02\/23\/the-indispensability-of-the-one\/"},"modified":"2009-05-20T12:23:51","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:23:51","slug":"the-indispensability-of-the-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/290","title":{"rendered":"The indispensability of the One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to the pool today I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Danny&amp;submit=Search\">Danny<\/a> loading the John Deere that he&#8217;s hauling to Kansas for his son William. You have to know Danny to understand how a conversation about a diesel tractor can shift to theology within a couple minutes. He mentioned the concept that, at certain times, the fate of the whole world can hinge on a single prayer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merton.org\/chrono.htm\">Merton<\/a> might have said that, and I don&#8217;t doubt it&#8217;s true. To believe otherwise would rationalize away the value of all prayer, wouldn&#8217;t it? A discussion of accountability followed and then salvation and then the loneliness of Christ&#8217;s path. I said, &#8220;But his mother was with him at the beginning, and right up to the end, and her role was crucial,&#8221; and Danny replied, &#8220;So, there you come full circle&#8212;with the potential of a single individual to contribute great good or great evil.&#8221; As I continued my walk to campus, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder if the Father had tried to send His Son at earlier times, and an angel&#8217;s warning had been misunderstood or ignored, so the infant had been slain, along with the guardians. And then I was in total awe of the significance of parenthood in general&#8230; with the awesome responsibility of it all. I was filled with gratitude for having such a wonderful mother and happiness that she was still with us. I prayed that it would be so for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to the pool today I saw Danny loading the John Deere that he&#8217;s hauling to Kansas for his son William. You have to know Danny to understand how a conversation about a diesel tractor can shift to theology within a couple minutes. He mentioned the concept that, at certain times, the fate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,8,69,37,25,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}