{"id":5987,"date":"2025-05-01T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2025-05-01T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:29:21","slug":"ponderings-from-pastor-patti-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/01\/ponderings-from-pastor-patti-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponderings from Pastor Patti &#8211; May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our Cultivating Love theme for May is Cultivating Love through Joy.\u00a0 An extremely fitting theme since we just experienced the most joy-filled event in the lives of Christians everywhere.\u00a0 And the season of Easter continues all through the month of May.<\/p>\n<p>The joy of Easter is real and comes in many ways.\u00a0 We will experience this joy through the observance of 50 days of the Easter season.\u00a0 We will experience this joy as the days become longer with spring stretching our hours of daylight, and we move ever closer to summer.\u00a0 Joy will be witnessed through the excitement and hope of graduations and confirmations, and in the anticipation of summer and what that might mean for vacations and new experiences.<\/p>\n<p>May is a month of celebrations which means a time of true joy.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I encourage you to ponder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the ways you have seen, witnessed or experienced God cultivating joy in you and others.<\/li>\n<li>How might God be inviting you to cultivate joy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Our Cultivating Love theme for May is Cultivating Love through Joy.\u00a0 An extremely fitting theme since we just experienced the most joy-filled event in the lives of Christians everywhere.\u00a0 And the season of Easter continues all through the month of May. The joy of Easter is real and comes in many ways.\u00a0 We will experience [&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-5987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8agoY-1yz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987","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=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5988,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flcssc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}