{"id":7124,"date":"2021-06-10T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2021-06-06T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T20:08:40","slug":"turn-on-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/turn-on-the-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn On the Lights!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe title=\"Turn On the Lights! 6\/10\/21\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=wkyav-105819c-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;download=1&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1&#038;btn-skin=7\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A couple took their son, 11, and daughter, 7, to the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, when the tour reached the deepest point in the cavern, the guide turned off all the lights to dramatize how completely dark and silent it is below the earth&#8217;s surface.&nbsp;<strong><em>The 7-year old little girl, suddenly enveloped in utter darkness, was frightened and began to cry.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immediately was heard the voice of her 11-year old brother:&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t cry. 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When I\u2019m alone, Jesus is in my heart and blesses my spirit.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When was Jesus able to recently Light YOUR Way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CHRISTIANS ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, BUT FIRST THE SWITCH MUST BE TURNED ON!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-amazon-kindle wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-amazon\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oceanwp-oembed-wrap clr\"><iframe title=\"THE GATHERING: Jesus and Abortion A Story For Our Time\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1200\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_WoBM2RjEEbfOuc&#038;asin=B08BDSDQ5L&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple took their son, 11, and daughter, 7, to the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.&nbsp; As always, when the tour reached the deepest point in the cavern, the guide turned off all the lights to dramatize how completely dark and silent it is below the earth&#8217;s surface.&nbsp;The 7-year old little girl, suddenly enveloped in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"qubely_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"qubely_landscape":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"qubely_portrait":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays.png",243,162,false],"qubely_thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays-140x100.png",140,100,true],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Light-Rays-45x45.png",45,45,true]},"qubely_author":{"display_name":"Medard Laz","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/author\/medlaz\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/category\/daily-treats\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Daily Treats<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"A couple took their son, 11, and daughter, 7, to the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.&nbsp; As always, when the tour reached the deepest point in the cavern, the guide turned off all the lights to dramatize how completely dark and silent it is below the earth&#8217;s surface.&nbsp;The 7-year old little girl, suddenly enveloped in&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treatsforthesoul.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}