{"id":4017,"date":"2019-07-18T16:36:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=4017"},"modified":"2019-07-18T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T23:36:58","slug":"grace","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace and Haste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">Philip Yancey\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4018 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday mornings I begin the day by playing classical music on the piano for an hour or so. Last Sunday I was playing a sonata when I hit a tricky passage full of \u201cgrace notes\u201d\u2014extra notes added as embellishments though not essential to the harmony. I noticed a footnote in the musical score, and at the bottom of the page a commentary on the passage began with this line: \u201cGrace is not compatible with haste.\u201d I stopped playing and contemplated this unexpect<span class=\"textexposedshow\">ed lesson in spirituality from Beethoven\u2019s editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve thought about that sentence often this week. When I\u2019m trying to get off the phone and return to work. When I eat too fast without even tasting the food. When I\u2019m anxious to end a conversation with a \u201changer-on\u201d at church. When I race down the canyon on my bicycle and fail to notice the plucky little evergreens growing on snow-laced rocks. When I\u2019m tempted to fire off a response on social media without giving it more calm thought. When I get sucked into the pre-Christmas shopping frenzy. When I focus more on the future than the present. When I\u2019m praying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4019 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/philip2-450x225.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I remember reading C. S. Lewis\u2019s description of Jesus-followers in &#8220;Mere Christianity&#8221;: \u201cThey will not be very like the idea of \u2018religious people\u2019 which you have formed from your general reading. They do not draw attention to themselves. You tend to think you are being kind to them when they are really being kind to you. They love you more than other men do, but they need you less&#8230;.They will usually seem to have a lot of time: you will wonder where it comes from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m learning where the extra time comes from:<strong> a daily awareness that grace is not compatible with haste<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":4018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[35],"class_list":["post-4017","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-english-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/4017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}