{"id":3919,"date":"2026-02-01T13:58:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2026-02-01T13:58:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:58:02","slug":"changes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2026\/02\/changes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a teen-ager on the school basketball team, we called them \u201cstone bruises\u201d and we got them by jumping up and landing on our heel.\u00a0 As I remember, we taped them and kept playing.\u00a0 I am obviously no longer a teen-ager, and I no longer play basketball, and the same injury is now called \u201cplanter fasciitis\u201d and I have it again.\u00a0 By the way, tape no longer works.\u00a0 These days, it takes exercise, inserts, massage, and a steroid shot.\u00a0 The bigger picture is that things change.\u00a0 I could bore you with what else has changed in the last sixty years, but most of you know or you are beginning to know. \u00a0Here are a few quotes on change:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/heraclitus_165537?src=t_change\">There is nothing permanent except change.\u201d Heraclitus. <\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/authors\/reinhold-niebuhr-quotes\">Reinhold Niebuhr<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHe who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/authors\/harold-wilson-quotes\">Harold Wilson<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.\u201d Chinese proverb.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe times, they are a-changin\u201d\u00a0 Bob Dylan<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy son, fear the Lordand the king; do not associate with those given to change.\u201d Proverbs 24:21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a teen-ager on the school basketball team, we called them \u201cstone bruises\u201d and we got them by jumping up and landing on our heel.\u00a0 As I remember, we taped them and kept playing.\u00a0 I am obviously no longer a teen-ager, and I no longer play basketball, and the same injury is now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_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-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","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=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}