{"id":5965,"date":"2025-03-29T08:41:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T13:44:55","slug":"ponderings-from-pastor-patti-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/2025\/03\/29\/ponderings-from-pastor-patti-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings from Pastor Patti &#8211; March 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Cultivating Love Through Response<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>Our Cultivating Love theme for March is \u201c<em>Cultivating Love through Response<\/em>\u201d\u2026 No sooner do we enter this month and Ash Wednesday is upon us along with the start of the great forty days of Lent.\u00a0 As we journey with Jesus\u2026we learn and follow.\u00a0 We see all that God has done and promises to do and we are invited to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Our response this particular month flows from the Lenten call to return or turn toward God.\u00a0 As we make that move, we are invited to go deeper, to be intentional, and to focus on growing as disciples and stewards of God\u2019s love.\u00a0 That is why this Lent could be a great opportunity for all of us to ponder and commit to a deeper sense of discipleship, generosity and stewardship.<\/p>\n<p>On Ash Wednesday, we are called into practices of prayer, repentance and almsgiving.\u00a0 This year we journey for 40 days, pondering on the ever-so-familiar words of the Lord\u2019s Prayer\u2026we know it by heart\u2026usually at a very young age.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a prayer that has been around as long as the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Come on Wednesday evenings, grab a bowl of soup and join in with the conversations around the words that we so freely pray without thinking sometimes.\u00a0 It might change the way you pray, and it might change how you relate to God in prayer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 Pastor Patti Meyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cultivating Love Through Response \u00a0Our Cultivating Love theme for March is \u201cCultivating Love through Response\u201d\u2026 No sooner do we enter this month and Ash Wednesday is upon us along with the start of the great forty days of Lent.\u00a0 As we journey with Jesus\u2026we learn and follow.\u00a0 We see all that God has done and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8agoY-1yd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5973,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}