{"id":129626,"date":"2024-06-03T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129626"},"modified":"2024-06-03T06:14:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:14:25","slug":"from-the-morning-bible-readings-1302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129626","title":{"rendered":"From the Morning Bible Readings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done. Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them. Then I said to myself, \u201cWhat befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?\u201d And I said to myself that this also is vanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211;Ecclesiastes 2: 22-25<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New week, new possibilities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z2ZbidkaOb\">pic.twitter.com\/Z2ZbidkaOb<\/a><\/p>&mdash; &#x1f333;Tree-lined&#x1f333;lanes&#x1f333; (@LanesTree) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanesTree\/status\/1797498420128817349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129626\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129635,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129626\/revisions\/129635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}