{"id":309,"date":"2013-11-11T06:03:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T06:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2013-11-11T06:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T06:04:32","slug":"remembrance-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago I learned that the Dickens Heath Parish Council was hosting a Service of Remembrance with one of the local Anglican ministers leading the service. I immediately offered my help, the participation of Dickens Heath Village Church, and the Sea Cadets (I am chaplain for the local unit; see my post from 5 November). We were able to make a positive contribution with all three, and there were about 100 in attendance at this outdoor service. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timothycaho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0603-0604-Stitched-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-310\" alt=\"IMG_0603 0604 Stitched cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timothycaho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0603-0604-Stitched-cropped-1024x678.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timothycaho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0603-0604-Stitched-cropped-1024x678.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.timothycaho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_0603-0604-Stitched-cropped-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my part, I read Matthew 5.1-12, and the verse that really stuck with me in the context of this service was verse nine, which reads &#8216;Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.&#8217; One of the issues we all experience, personally, locally, regionally, and globally is conflict. And don&#8217;t we know the pain on each of these levels when conflict escalates and isn&#8217;t resolved? Some argue that warfare is a failure to properly deal with unresolved conflict. Others will argue for &#8216;just war&#8217; when evil people perpetrate injustice and exercise corrupted power on the weak and defenseless.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I am thankful for those people who are able to bring peaceful resolution to conflict at whatever level it may exist. I am likewise thankful for those who are commissioned to protect the weak and defenseless and suffer loss a result. As the <em>Ode to Remembrance <\/em>says, &#8216;At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>And so we did today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago I learned that the Dickens Heath Parish Council was hosting a Service of Remembrance with one of the local Anglican ministers leading the service. I immediately offered my help, the participation of Dickens Heath Village Church, and the Sea Cadets (I am chaplain for the local unit; see my post from 5 <a href=\"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/?p=309\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timothycaho.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}