{"id":3576,"date":"2011-03-15T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T03:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:25","slug":"day-122-vaguely-celtic-cross-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3576","title":{"rendered":"Day 122 &#8211; Vaguely-Celtic Cross (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa and the kids and I drove to Shelbyville to attend little brother Russ&#8217; church.\u00a0 Big brother Spencer and his family came too.\u00a0 We gathered because Russ was taking the big step of joining the church and, more importantly, professing his faith publicly.\u00a0  Spencer pointed out that a lot of folks had been praying for this day to come for a long time.\u00a0 Russ will tell you that he spent many years far from God, living life on his own terms.\u00a0 This past year has been a spiritual journey for him.\u00a0 Then, on a recent weekend, he attended an Emmaus Walk at the urging of his fiancee.\u00a0  It sealed the deal and he has surrendered.\u00a0 He has posted numerous testimonies on Facebook about his experiences during that retreat and it sounds like God spoke some deep truths to him.\u00a0  Even better, it sounds like God really has Russ&#8217; ear on an on-going basis now. Praise God!<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhTOp326k2MQDHHJR4WuibiQk65V10MqfXiKdUDUePlwSotjNOU_C2zRdxBmTPQaxCru0sEhfIkWNOUg71VUss6Msn1VvyZsDi0HaYpUBZtHUQVpAmRrzP0Oq5oMe7FH809KxZfp7Z_e8A\/s200\/Picture+90.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across this small cross that I believe my mother gave me some years ago.\u00a0 It&#8217;s one of many things I can&#8217;t hold on to in the long run, so I gave it to Russ after we all enjoyed a lunch together post-worship.\u00a0  It was a good day.\u00a0 God is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa and the kids and I drove to Shelbyville to attend little brother Russ&#8217; church.\u00a0 Big brother Spencer and his family came too.\u00a0 We gathered because Russ was taking the big step of joining the church and, more importantly, professing his faith publicly.\u00a0 Spencer pointed out that a lot of folks had been praying for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}