{"id":12943,"date":"2022-04-25T20:19:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T00:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/?post_type=ctc_event&#038;p=12943"},"modified":"2022-04-25T20:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T00:19:53","slug":"soul-matters-small-group-renewing-faith-2-3-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"ctc_event","link":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/events\/soul-matters-small-group-renewing-faith-2-3-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Matters Small Group &#8220;Nurturing Beauty&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>*Held outdoors at Park Ave*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our theme for this month is \u201cNurturing Beauty.\u201d I believe there is beauty all around us, if only we remind ourselves to pay attention &#8211; budding trees, the smile of a beloved.&nbsp; It is when times are hard that this can slip away. Blaise Pascal reminds us, \u201cIn difficult times, carry something beautiful in your heart.\u201d&nbsp; I wonder, what beauty do you hold in your heart? What goodness do you carry within? I wonder, too, of those wounds that lead to resilient scars &#8211; those beautiful scars that make us stronger, kinder, and more compassionate. In times of hardship, how can we both notice all that surrounds us, and nurture our inner self?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I invite you to come to this group with nothing but curiosity and an open mind! There will be no prep work and no need to reflect on a packet.&nbsp; Together, we will reflect on wise words of others and grapple with some self-reflective questions. <u>Please sign up using the link below<\/u>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/70A0D4AACAF2AA1FC1-soul19\">https:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/70A0D4AACAF2AA1FC1-soul19<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Held outdoors at Park Ave* Our theme for this month is \u201cNurturing Beauty.\u201d I believe there is beauty all around us, if only we remind ourselves to pay attention &#8211; budding trees, the smile of a beloved.&nbsp; It is when times are hard that this can slip away. Blaise Pascal reminds us, \u201cIn difficult times, carry something beautiful in your heart.\u201d&nbsp; I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","ctc_event_category":[],"class_list":["post-12943","ctc_event","type-ctc_event","status-publish","hentry","ctfw-no-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ctc_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/12943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12944,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event\/12943\/revisions\/12944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ctc_event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctc_event_category?post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}