{"id":119,"date":"2002-12-05T19:00:30","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T03:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/12\/05\/from-christmas-colors-to-christmas-spirit\/"},"modified":"2002-12-05T19:00:30","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T03:00:30","slug":"from-christmas-colors-to-christmas-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/05\/from-christmas-colors-to-christmas-spirit","title":{"rendered":"From Christmas Colors to Christmas Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stanford_100.gif\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/stanford_100.gif?resize=100%2C100\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"> Christ\u00admas is upon us. This year, I\u2019ve been struck by the Christ\u00admas col\u00adors that Stan\u00adford flaunts on its logos. I sup\u00adpose that makes Stan\u00adford sort of Christ\u00admassy.<\/p>\n<p>But in a more impor\u00adtant sense, Stanford\u2019s not Christ\u00admassy at all. Christ isn\u2019t at the cen\u00adter, and cel\u00ade\u00adbrat\u00ading Christ\u00admas with\u00adout Christ is like being mar\u00adried with\u00adout a spouse. Some\u00adthing essen\u00adtial is miss\u00ading.<\/p>\n<p>God has called us here to help a school with Christ\u00admas col\u00adors devel\u00adop true Christ\u00admas spir\u00adit. Christ\u00admas is about Jesus being born\u2014not just born in a manger 2,000 years ago, but being born in each of our hearts. Until every heart becomes a manger, we\u2019ll be pro\u00adclaim\u00ading the Christ\u00admas sto\u00adry to the stu\u00addents at Stan\u00adford, whether it\u2019s Decem\u00adber or July.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re ever on cam\u00adpus and you hear some fool yelling \u201cMer\u00adry Christ\u00admas\u201d at a wild\u00adly inap\u00adpro\u00adpri\u00adate time of year, be sure to tell me hi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stan\u00adford looks like Christ\u00admas, but what\u2019s beneath the wrap\u00adping?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}