{"id":258,"date":"2007-04-23T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disciple.user3.archhosting.net\/members\/?p=258"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:45:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T22:45:10","slug":"a-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2007\/04\/a-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve just witnessed the nation\u2019s worst shooting in history. Thirty-three students and faculty killed at Virginia Tech in one morning. Repeatedly I heard students and others saying in interviews, \u201cI just want to forget it\u201d and \u201cI just want to get back to normal.\u201d It\u2019s not likely to happen. As far as normal has to do with our spirit &#8211; fear, anger, sadness, anxiety. etc. &#8211; things will never be normal again. Have you forgotten Columbine? Members of our church in Fort Worth, Texas haven\u2019t forgotten September 15, 1999 when a lone gunman with two guns, two hundred rounds of ammunition and a pipe bomb, took twelve minutes to kill seven, seriously wound seven, traumatize hundreds, including members of my family, and finally take his own life. We learned that you don\u2019t go back to normal. A new normal must be created. Maybe that\u2019s part of what the Psalmist meant when he asked God to renew a right or steadfast spirit within him (Ps. 51:10). Come to think of it, this might be a good week for another renewal of spirit.<\/p>\n<p>To download my eBook of the account of the Wedgwood Baptist Church shootings, <a href=\"http:\/\/Discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/NightofTragedyDawningofLight-1.pdf\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve just witnessed the nation\u2019s worst shooting in history. Thirty-three students and faculty killed at Virginia Tech in one morning. Repeatedly I heard students and others saying in interviews, \u201cI just want to forget it\u201d and \u201cI just want to get back to normal.\u201d It\u2019s not likely to happen. As far as normal has to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}