{"id":256,"date":"2018-12-24T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=256"},"modified":"2018-12-24T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T15:11:11","slug":"from-overspent-to-over-blessed-reflections-at-advent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"From Overspent to Over Blessed :: Reflections at Advent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>How much are you spending on Christmas? <\/b>I am not talking about money. I want you to think about everything else you pour out in the holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The energy that is required for social interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brain power that is necessary for thinking about the\nright gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scheduling effort that you have to invested to\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Social obligations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Family considerations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Dining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How much are you spending on Christmas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>And in the end, when you look in the mirror, do you see someone who is overspent? Or over-blessed?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image-1-1024x578.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/image-1-768x434.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this podcast, we look at Mary and see how much she had to\nspend on the first Christmas \u2013 and how God enabled her to manage it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5036\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-256-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181223Advent04FromOverspentToOverBlessed.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181223Advent04FromOverspentToOverBlessed.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181223Advent04FromOverspentToOverBlessed.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181223Advent04FromOverspentToOverBlessed.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=256-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2018\/20181223Advent04FromOverspentToOverBlessed.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20181223Advent04FromOverspentToOverBlessed.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much are you spending on Christmas? I am not talking about money. I want you to think about everything else you pour out in the holiday season. The energy that is required for social interactions. The brain power that is necessary for thinking about the right gift. The scheduling effort that you have to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Overspent to Over Blessed :: Reflections at Advent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,100],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-advent","tag-mary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-48","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}