{"id":21309,"date":"2016-02-11T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=21309"},"modified":"2016-02-11T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T22:53:16","slug":"lenten-thoughts-from-the-suburban-hermit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2016\/02\/lenten-thoughts-from-the-suburban-hermit.html","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Thoughts from The Suburban Hermit"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_21272\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21272\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2016\/02\/kakshi-stylite.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21272\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/149\/2016\/02\/kakshi-stylite-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"The Suburban Hermit\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Suburban Hermit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>What do you really want? <a href=\"https:\/\/suburbanhermitblog.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/11\/what-you-really-want\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Today\u2019s Lent pos<\/a>t at the Suburban Hermit makes you think\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My brother in law is an artist and a wise man.<\/p>\n<p>He is fond of saying, \u201cEvery person, everywhere will always do whatever they can to get as close as they can to what they perceive as love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Lenten season do you see yourself and other people chasing all sorts of things that you know and they know will not ultimately satisfy?<\/p>\n<p>We chase money and power. 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