{"id":6032,"date":"2023-11-30T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6032"},"modified":"2023-11-30T17:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:02:23","slug":"down-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=6032","title":{"rendered":"DOWN TIME ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DOWN TIME &#8211; good or bad ?<br>DOWN TIME &#8211; can I afford it ?<br>DOWN TIME &#8211; can I choose it ?<br>DOWN TIME &#8211; can I do it ?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do I fear DOWN TIME ?<br>Do I avoid DOWN TIME ?<br>Could I face myself in DOWN TIME ?<br>Could I rest in DOWN TIME ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>DOWN TIME &#8211; would it reveal my attention deficit disorder ?<br>DOWN TIME &#8211; would it show my hyperactive disorder ?<br>DOWN TIME &#8211; could I lose status ?<br>DOWN TIME &#8211; too foreign for me ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does DOWN TIME sound a bit too close to God time ?<br>How could I have time for DOWN TIME ?<br>What would I have to change for DOWN TIME ?<br>I can&#8217;t do it &#8211; DOWN TIME !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve bought in to &#8211;<br>I&#8217;ve locked in to &#8211;<br>&#8211; a mental, emotional, social, perpetual-motion machine &#8211;<br>&#8211; must keep going round and round &#8211;<br>&#8211; can&#8217;t get off now &#8211;<br>&#8211; can&#8217;t stop the merry-go-round<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOWN TIME struggle is nothing new &#8211; just ramped up now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOWN TIME &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">old days<\/span> &#8211;<br>&#8211; &#8220;sold your soul to the company store&#8221; &#8211;<br>&#8211; no choice but to keep going &#8211;<br>&#8211; even get deeper in debt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DOWN TIME &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now days<\/span> &#8211;<br>&#8211; &#8220;sold your soul to the company cell&#8221; &#8211;<br>&#8211; no choice but to keep it up &#8211;<br>&#8211; or get behind &#8211;<br>&#8211; and get deeper enslaved ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Jesus said to His disciples, &#8216;Come apart by yourselves to a secluded place and rest awhile.&#8217;  For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure, even to eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;Come apart&#8217; to rest&#8212;or come apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOWN TIME &#8211; good or bad ?DOWN TIME &#8211; can I afford it ?DOWN TIME &#8211; can I choose it ?DOWN TIME &#8211; can I do it ? Do I fear DOWN TIME ?Do I avoid DOWN TIME ?Could I face myself in DOWN TIME ?Could I rest in DOWN TIME ? DOWN TIME &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,14,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-health","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6035,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}