{"id":7853,"date":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/to-secure-peace-of-mind\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:48:03","slug":"to-secure-peace-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/to-secure-peace-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"To Secure Peace of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anyone in this room who is not seeking after peace?  Mark Twain once commented that \u201c&#8230;from his cradle to his grave a [person] never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one &#8212; to secure peace of mind &#8212; spiritual comfort for himself.\u201d  Twain may have overstated the case slightly, but the truth of the matter is that our hearts do long to be at peace &#8212; peace with our neighbors, peace with ourselves, peace with God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anyone in this room who is not seeking after peace? Mark Twain once commented that \u201c&#8230;from his cradle to his grave a [person] never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one &#8212; to secure peace of mind &#8212; spiritual comfort for himself.\u201d Twain may have overstated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[656],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}