{"id":14169,"date":"2013-09-02T15:51:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T04:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=14169"},"modified":"2013-09-02T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T04:51:49","slug":"the-cross-in-my-pocket-continuing-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2013\/09\/02\/the-cross-in-my-pocket-continuing-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross in My Pocket: continuing blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a lovely note from Barbara Griffiths of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parishofstleonardstas.com\/\">St Leonard&#8217;s Parish<\/a> when I returned from my annual leave recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wanted to share with you about this lady who was a visitor from England at St Peters.\u00a0 She was telling me about this cross she had in her pocket, that went with her everywhere,\u00a0 I shared with her the fact I had bought a card from Griffith when we were there a few weeks ago, with\u00a0&#8216;The Cross in my pocket&#8217; poem on it.<\/p>\n<p>We then went together into our new (St Leonard&#8217;s Parish) building, and I opened the package with the new Tas Anglican (magazine)\u00a0in it only to see the front page.\u00a0 I turned and showed it to her.\u00a0 She beamed and said &#8220;I\u00a0want to take one with me back home&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A great joy to her and to me.<a href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2013\/09\/Cros-in-pocket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14181\" alt=\"Cross in pocket\" src=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/files\/2013\/09\/Cros-in-pocket.jpg\" width=\"266\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read my article &#8216;The Cross in My Pocket&#8217; in the August Tas Anglican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasmaniananglican.com\/ta201308-01\/\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The photo on the left is of my Mother&#8217;s card, &#8216;The Cross in My Pocket&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The front cover of the Tas Anglican that Barbara speaks of can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasmaniananglican.com\/\">viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received a lovely note from Barbara Griffiths of St Leonard&#8217;s Parish when I returned from my annual leave recently: I wanted to share with you about this lady who was a visitor from England at St Peters.\u00a0 She was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2013\/09\/02\/the-cross-in-my-pocket-continuing-blessings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14169"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14189,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14169\/revisions\/14189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}