{"id":13002,"date":"2025-04-02T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=13002"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:42:33","slug":"on-the-contrary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=13002","title":{"rendered":"On the Contrary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20231117_1616091-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20231117_1616091-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12497\" style=\"width:635px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20231117_1616091-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20231117_1616091-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20231117_1616091-rotated.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prodigal:  Great place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me:  Thanks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is from Francois De La Mothe Fenelon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course.  On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice, to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us, to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And\u00a0seeing\u00a0the multitudes,\u00a0he went up\u00a0into\u00a0a mountain:\u00a0and\u00a0when he\u00a0was set,\u00a0his\u00a0disciples\u00a0came\u00a0unto him: Matthew 5:1 (KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal: Great place! Me: Thanks! 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