“Thirty-three. This was the year they got Him.”<\/p>\n
Thanks, Mom. I was already thinking that.<\/em><\/p>\n All my Christian friends have taken their 33rd birthdays pretty heavily. Not midlife-crisis heavily, talking about death all of the time like a fifty year old, but hard nonetheless. It’s natural, if you strive to model yourself on Jesus, to ask the difficult questions now. In particular, the really hard one.<\/p>\n If I died now, what will I have done? Will it be enough?<\/em><\/p>\n Nobody expects me to die this year, much less rise from the dead. But whenever you hear of a contemporary dying (usually a celebrity), you ask yourself these questions. It’s kind of the reverse of my stocktake<\/a> at the end of last year.<\/p>\n OK, this is what I have received<\/strong>. What have I given back?<\/em><\/p>\n I don’t know. I have a half-share in the birth and raising of Alex<\/a>, who I hope will leave the world a better place than he finds it. That’s something. I try to be a loving wife, a good friend, smart and competent at work, a responsible citizen and a compassionate stranger. I buy fairtrade<\/a> and take public transport instead of owning a car. I argue for peace in times of war, and for justice in times of greed.<\/p>\n But is it enough?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Thirty-three. This was the year they got Him.”<\/p>\n Thanks, Mom. I was already thinking that.<\/em><\/p>\n All my Christian friends have taken their 33rd birthdays pretty heavily. Not midlife-crisis heavily, talking about death all of the time like a fifty year old, but hard nonetheless. It’s natural, if you strive to model yourself on Jesus, to ask the difficult questions now. In particular, the really hard one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1580,1621],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-alex","tag-significant-dates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}