{"id":1787,"date":"2025-12-04T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:22:29","slug":"secretarys-corner-54-december-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/secretarys-corner-54-december-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary&#8217;s Corner 54 &#8211; December 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Sunday was Regional Prayer. I went in the evening, partially because I was playing guitar, and partially because I wanted to. I find, though, that often I <em>don\u2019t<\/em> feel like going\u2026and I\u2019m never quite sure why. I get a lot out of it whenever I do go, but I always seem to be outlandishly tired, or I\u2019ll mysteriously get a headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This indicates to me that I\u2019m missing something important. Whenever I push through whatever roadblock is in the way, I end up having something meaningful come out of it. This isn\u2019t to sound superstitious; it\u2019s not a magic formula that I will have the best time ever when I have a headache before prayer. But I do know that I have an enemy who certainly doesn\u2019t want me going to prayer nights. So it makes sense to me that it is always more a struggle to get to said prayer nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s like Sunday mornings. For many years, Sunday mornings were a gong show and a half for my siblings and I. We squabbled twice as much as normal when trying to get out the door to church. I\u2019m sure our parents were ready to give up and just go with Timeout Sundays at many points. But they pushed through the arguments and whining and got us to church. I think that\u2019s important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All this to say, I would encourage you that if you are having the most ridiculous time trying to get to some church event, instead of getting frustrated, try viewing it as confirmation that it\u2019s important and worth getting to. A mindset shift can sometimes help make the most out of a hectic morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday was Regional Prayer. I went in the evening, partially because I was playing guitar, and partially because I wanted to. I find, though, that often I don\u2019t feel like going\u2026and I\u2019m never quite sure why. I get a lot out of it whenever I do go, but I always seem to be outlandishly tired, or I\u2019ll mysteriously get a headache&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2025\/12\/secretarys-corner-54-december-4\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13,132,133,12,131],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secretarys-corner","tag-blog","tag-prayernight","tag-pushingthrough","tag-secretary","tag-sickness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}