{"id":1128,"date":"2019-01-03T16:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2019-01-03T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T21:17:18","slug":"begin-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/begin-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Begin Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/images1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new year invites us to start over.<br \/>\nStart to diet again.<br \/>\nStart to organize your papers, office, closet<br \/>\n&#8230; life<br \/>\nStart to exercise more<br \/>\npray more<br \/>\nstudy more<br \/>\nmeditate more&#8230;<br \/>\nIt is the time of year that invites us<br \/>\nto do it different this time.<br \/>\nTo be different<br \/>\ndo better.<\/p>\n<p>St. Benedict&#8217;s wisdom beckons through the ages,<br \/>\nreminding us that always we can begin again.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that we can begin again<br \/>\nnot only each year<br \/>\nbut each day<br \/>\neach hour, if we need to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>May our guiding star,<br \/>\nbe the one that hangs over a manger,<br \/>\nblazes into our imaginations<br \/>\nscorches our spirits<br \/>\nLet it be the one that turns us<br \/>\nagain\u00a0and again,<br \/>\norienting us each time<br \/>\ntoward \u00a0the Light<br \/>\nthat is both map<br \/>\nand path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas-mystery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1122\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/christmas-mystery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year invites us to start over. Start to diet again. Start to organize your papers, office, closet &#8230; life Start to exercise more pray more study more meditate more&#8230; It is the time of year that invites us to do it different this time. To be different do better. St. Benedict&#8217;s wisdom beckons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/begin-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Begin Again<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}