{"id":882,"date":"2014-11-17T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/?p=882"},"modified":"2014-11-17T00:27:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T06:27:00","slug":"on-gods-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/882","title":{"rendered":"On God&#8217;s Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the opening lines of the Liturgy of the Hours\u2014known as the invitatory psalm\u2014the Church professes of God, &#8220;He holds in his hands the depths of the earth.&#8221; Which means God holds in his hands the depths of my life: all my worries, my troubles, my nagging concerns big and small, my challenges, my struggles, my phobias. Nothing is beyond the reach of his tender, infallible protectorship. God&#8217;s loving providence shepherds the minutest details of our daily life. The high eternal Father says to Saint Catherine of Siena in the<em>Dialogue<\/em>, &#8220;I am constantly providing for what you need at any given time. I am that supreme providence who never betrays my servants&#8217; hope in me in soul or body.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The above comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Catholic\/Have-You-Asked-Peter-John-Cameron-10-16-2012.html\">&#8220;Have You Asked God What It Is He Wants?&#8221;<\/a> by Fr. Peter Cameron, O.P. the Editor-in-Chief at Magnificat. The article may be from a couple of years ago, but it&#8217;s a nice meditation on God&#8217;s providence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the opening lines of the Liturgy of the Hours\u2014known as the invitatory psalm\u2014the Church professes of God, &#8220;He holds in his hands the depths of the earth.&#8221; Which means God holds in his hands the depths of my life: all my worries, my troubles, my nagging concerns big and small, my challenges, my struggles, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/archives\/882\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-found-on-the-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/3optn.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}