{"id":16051,"date":"2016-09-26T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2016\/09\/26\/the-view-back-up\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:00:09","slug":"the-view-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2016\/09\/26\/the-view-back-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The View Back Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really thankful that they&#8217;re beginning to see better. The dust is settling.<\/p>\n<p>We were visiting one of our sponsor churches this past Sunday now that we&#8217;re back in Ohio for a couple weeks before departure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s such a flood of emotions all balled up in that statement above. Here for a couple of weeks. Before our departure. So much excitement. And beautiful chaos. And heartache. And utter joy. It&#8217;s all so surreal.<\/p>\n<p>As we sat in the pew our oldest recognized someone in the video played: Our association&#8217;s missionary. &#8220;Hey, we&#8217;ve seen him before!&#8221; And as we were in the line to leave, our four year old looked up and said &#8220;Mommy, I know that guy,&#8221; when spotting the pastor.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love that they&#8217;re beginning to see better. They&#8217;re beginning to see how God has orchestrated these dear brothers to hold the rope for us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>William Carey likened gospel missions work to descending into a deep mine. &#8220;I will go down,&#8221; he said to a church crowd, &#8220;but remember that you must hold the rope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We are merely the sent out ones.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, dear brothers and sisters for holding the rope.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not going unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>Even by the smallest among us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Thankful, grateful and beyond blessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really thankful that they&#8217;re beginning to see better. The dust is settling. We were visiting one of our sponsor churches this past Sunday now that we&#8217;re back in Ohio for a couple weeks before departure.&nbsp; There&#8217;s such a flood of emotions all balled up in that statement above. Here for a couple of weeks&#8230;. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2016\/09\/26\/the-view-back-up\/#more-16051\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}