{"id":1012,"date":"2023-09-14T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2023-09-15T02:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T02:07:50","slug":"stars-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Stars in Our Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Stars in Our Garden:<\/h4>\n<h5>Finding Hope When You&#8217;ve Been De-Hoped<\/h5>\n<h5>Wade Mullen Pellucid Substack<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/62\/Starsinthesky.jpg\/640px-Starsinthesky.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit ESA\/Hubble\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wademullen.substack.com\/p\/stars-in-our-garden\">Stars in Our Garden: Finding Hope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This essay offers a beautiful metaphor of hope for those who have been targets of abuse. Beyond that, it offers a vision for how others can become &#8220;stars in their garden,&#8221; bringing light and hope.<\/p>\n<h5>Quotes:<\/h5>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;the vast majority [of people who have been abused] still carry untold, disbelieved, or ignored stories, slowly becoming (if not already) de-hoped. They hope to find a source of light, but have only been met with more darkness: betrayals that re-victimize, further silence, and de-hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, whenever we are in a position to help and we choose to listen, affirm, and act justly, we help another become re-hoped. We open the possibility for there to be some way forward. We become a source of light&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars in Our Garden: Finding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-books-and-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}