{"id":5638,"date":"2023-12-01T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:45","slug":"4-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=5638","title":{"rendered":"4 CONVERSATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(A short post tonight &#8211; it&#8217;s been a crazy few days.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow, opportunities arose this week for me to speak with four missionaries. Three current and one former.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These four conversations had some things in common:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>None descended into small talk.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Each was longer than my normal day to day conversations. (The longest was several hours.)<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>If time had allowed, all could have gone much longer.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Each wrestled a bit with how to recognize God&#8217;s will and the leading of the Holy Spirit.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Any discussion of other people was done with nothing but compassion.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Each challenged me and stoked a desire to go deeper into my own experience of faith.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>And finally, each gave me hope.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe I should make this a regular habit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(A short post tonight &#8211; it&#8217;s been a crazy few days.) Somehow, opportunities arose this week for me to speak with four missionaries. Three current and one former.\u00a0 These four conversations had some things in common: Maybe I should make this a regular habit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","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=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}