{"id":8689,"date":"2022-06-13T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8689"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:10","slug":"the-week-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8689","title":{"rendered":"THE WEEK AHEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not much focus or energy to write tonight. I left Columbus this morning later than I had intended and arrived in Jackson, Mississippi about 12 hours later.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trip was supposed to take about 9 and a half.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I had plenty of time to think and pray. I listened to Scripture so that I could give some thought to an upcoming sermon. I listened to some training videos about writing. And I listened to some of my favorite songs on Spotify.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A week of intensive classes starts tomorrow morning on the campus of Wesley Biblical Seminary. 8:00 am sharp. I am looking forward to it, even if I am still not sure where all of this doctoral work is going.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some lyrics from Tom Petty played this evening on Spotify and these words rang true for me currently:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I started out\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For God knows where.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess I&#8217;ll know\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Tom Petty, <i>Learning to Fly<\/i>)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much focus or energy to write tonight. I left Columbus this morning later than I had intended and arrived in Jackson, Mississippi about 12 hours later. The trip was supposed to take about 9 and a half.\u00a0 So I had plenty of time to think and pray. I listened to Scripture so that I [&hellip;]<\/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-8689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689","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=8689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8690,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8689\/revisions\/8690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}