{"id":645,"date":"2012-07-25T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulwod\/?p=645"},"modified":"2012-07-24T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:40:30","slug":"go-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/soulwod\/2012\/07\/go-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Solitude can be difficult to find, whether we are around people or lost in loneliness. \u00a0Solitude is a stance more than a situation\u2013it is a way of being alone before God, unarmed with all of our protections. \u00a0Being alone is only the easiest way to get to this stance, but it is not the stance itself.<\/p>\n<p>Today, seek solitude. \u00a0This could be best achieved by finding some space and time away from others so that you can focus on being alone before God. \u00a0But if you cannot go away, go away in yourself. \u00a0Place yourself in a posture of solitude in which all that matters is your presence naked before God.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solitude can be difficult to find, whether we are around people or lost in loneliness. \u00a0Solitude is a stance more than a situation\u2013it is a way of being alone before God, unarmed with all of our protections. \u00a0Being alone is only the easiest way to get to this stance, but it is not the stance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,1],"tags":[88,91,90,87,89],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solitude","category-uncategorized","tag-go-away","tag-loneliness","tag-posture","tag-solitude-2","tag-stance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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