{"id":5738,"date":"2021-03-25T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=5738"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:03:56","slug":"what-may-edify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/?p=5738","title":{"rendered":"What May Edify"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20181013_143626-e1557861315915-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5607\" width=\"429\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20181013_143626-e1557861315915-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.theprodigalpig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/20181013_143626-e1557861315915-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Prodigal:  What do you think of my friends?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me:  They are as cute as buttons!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desire to be familiar with God alone and His Angels, and avoid the acquaintance of men.  We must have charity towards all, but familiarity with all is not expedient.  Sometimes it falleth out, that a person unknown to us waxeth bright from the good report of others; yet his presence darkeneth they eyes of the beholders.  We think sometimes to please others by our company, and we begin rather to displease them with the wickedness which they discover in us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Psalms 24:7-8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lift up your heads, O gates!  And be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prodigal: What do you think of my friends? Me: They are as cute as buttons! 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