{"id":28744,"date":"2011-10-13T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_benedict_xvi_encourages_perceiving_the_beautiful_things_that_come_from\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T17:32:23","slug":"pope_benedict_xvi_encourages_perceiving_the_beautiful_things_that_come_from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28744","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI Encourages Perceiving the Beautiful Things That Come From the Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dear brothers and sisters,&#8221; he said, &#8220;in our prayer we should look more often at how, in the events of our own lives, the Lord has protected, guided and helped us, and we should praise him for all he has done and does for us. We should be more attentive to the good things the Lord gives to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pontiff noted how &#8220;we are always attentive to problems and to difficulties,&#8221; but there is almost an unwillingness &#8220;to perceive that there are beautiful things that come from the Lord.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attention to the good, &#8220;which becomes gratitude,&#8221; he said, &#8220;is very important for us; it creates in us a memory for the good and it helps us also in times of darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-33650?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dear brothers and sisters,&#8221; he said, &#8220;in our prayer we should look more often at how, in the events of our own lives, the Lord has protected, guided and helped us, and we should praise him for all he has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28744\">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":[48,42,154,177,636,364,188,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-roman-catholic","category-spiritualityprayer","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744","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=28744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}