{"id":2023,"date":"2002-03-25T19:58:51","date_gmt":"2002-03-26T00:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2002-03-25T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2002-03-26T00:58:51","slug":"suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/25\/suffering.html","title":{"rendered":"Suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"block\"><sup>13<\/sup>   Then were there brought unto him little children, who made happy noises all during the service, despite their parents&#8217; best efforts to quiet them down, plying them with sippy cups of milk and coloring books to draw in; which happy noises did ring and echo throughout the temple even unto the times when the priest suggested a moment of peaceful meditation: and the disciples rebuked them.<br \/>\n<sup>14<\/sup>   But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.<br \/>\n<sup>15<\/sup>   Nevertheless, the parents were more than a little mortified by the whole affair.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8212; Matthew, ch. 19 (para.)<\/p>\n<p><p>Did I mention that Margie and I were tapped to do the Scripture readings at the evening service tonight?  Which service was attended by about twenty other people, which meant that the usual sound-dampening qualities of the congregation were not there?  Damned fine acoustics in that church.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the usual child care they provide in the nursery on Sundays wasn&#8217;t there, either.  Which we had known in advance, but &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, Katherine had a good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 Then were there brought unto him little children, who made happy noises all during the service, despite their parents&#8217; best efforts to quiet them down, plying them with sippy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/11\/suffer-the-children-to-come-unto-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":2023,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Suffer the children to come unto me&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Jul-14 12:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"While Jesus didn't deem it necessary to do a background check into the parents of the kids he told the disciples to allow into his presence (Matt. 9:14), conservative Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino of Wisconsin probably thinks he should have. 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