{"id":111,"date":"2008-05-21T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T18:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-05-21T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T18:10:58","slug":"the-presence-of-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"The Presence of Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In deleting old email from my computer, I opened-up a special <strong>CoB Newsline<\/strong> from March 12th. The <strong>Newsline <\/strong>feature article was on the proposed merger of the Association of Brethren Caregivers (A.B.C.) and the General Board. In the article, I read a quote from Eddie Edmonds, pastor in West Virginia and chair of the A.B.C. Board. During the presentation he said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>God doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deliver us fully developed. He delivers us into the presence of possibilities.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rather than quickly deleting this email, I had to ponder this thought. I think it was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God-thing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to see it today. I love the idea that God delivers us into the presence of possibilities! I must confess that in my immature faith that sometimes I expect God to have something \u00e2\u20ac\u0153perfect\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that I need to search for and find. Yet, in my journey with Christ, I often find that great things come when least expected. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not searching for the unexpected blessing. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just a gift from God!<\/p>\n<p>Can you resonate with Eddie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words? Any illustrations from your life you care to share?<\/p>\n<p>Blessings to you,<br \/>\nJeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In deleting old email from my computer, I opened-up a special CoB Newsline from March 12th. The Newsline feature article was on the proposed merger of the Association of Brethren Caregivers (A.B.C.) and the General Board. In the article, I read a quote from Eddie Edmonds, pastor in West Virginia and chair of the A.B.C. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-formation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}