{"id":85,"date":"2007-07-25T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T01:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.livingbythewordsofgod.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2007-07-25T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T01:46:11","slug":"they-are-vulnerable-and-fragile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"They are vulnerable and fragile."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The people around us.\u00a0 They are vulnerable and fragile.\u00a0 Look at the following definitions:\u00a0 easily broken, open to attack.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>vulnerable<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>capable of being physically or emotionally wounded<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"-1\">susceptible to attack<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"-1\">o<\/font>pen to attack or damage<\/li>\n<li><font size=\"-1\">capable of being wounded or hurt<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><u><strong>fragile<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"-1\">delicate: easily broken or damaged or destroyed<\/font><\/li>\n<li>easily broken or destroyed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sometimes I see it in their eyes.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t make too much of this, but sometimes through the eyes if God&#8217;s Spirit is close, sometimes we see deep inside the other person&#8217;s &#8220;impression shield.&#8221;\u00a0 You know, the walls we raise, the facades we construct to give a certain impression of ourselves.\u00a0 We all do it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s how we survive.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes if we aren&#8217;t paying so much attention to ourselves, their impenetrable shield becomes nothing, invisible, and, poof, oh my, we see right inside them.<\/p>\n<p>It happened to me today.\u00a0 A young man at work, strong and impenetrable on the outside, maybe even obnoxious, but there I was it seemed, looking into his soul.<\/p>\n<p>And I was able to be a helper.<\/p>\n<p>But it made me think:\u00a0 How vulnerable we all are and what a dangerous place to live. . .this Earth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1 Peter 5:8 GW)\u00a0 Keep your mind clear, and be alert. Your opponent the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion as he looks for someone to devour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The people around us.\u00a0 They are vulnerable and fragile.\u00a0 Look at the following definitions:\u00a0 easily broken, open to attack. vulnerable capable of being physically or emotionally wounded susceptible to attack open to attack or damage capable of being wounded or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=85\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-spirituality-religion-truth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-1n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}