{"id":8642,"date":"2020-07-05T22:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2020-07-05T22:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:04:12","slug":"lets-start-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/2020\/07\/05\/lets-start-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Start Over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/img_1456-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8641\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally returned church for worship today after many months of attending it online from home in my pajamas.  Many b&amp;s stopped by to say hello.  Some wanted to initiate conversations, but I feel a little uncomfortable and shy like a newcomer.  I also returned to fellowship for the first time on Friday since CNY.  The attendance actually seemed more numerous than before the pandemic.  I was feeling a little uncomfortable and shy as well.  I guess I just need some time to warm-up and re-habilitate into real authentic church relationships after the many months of social distancing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sermon today talked about focusing on God during the pandemic.  I just remembered the part about Jesus willing to leave behind all His heavenly riches and humbled Himself to come serve and connect with us sinful earthlings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have moved out to live by myself for about 3 weeks now.  I do feel more focused on work during weekdays.  And when I go home for dinner and weekend stay overs, I feel more \u201cpresent\u201d for my parents as though trying to makeup for the increased time I am staying away from home.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, I think me moving out is a good start. <strong><em>May God continue to bless me and my family as we start life anew in the post-covid19 era. <\/em><\/strong>??<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally returned church for worship today after many months of attending it online from home in my pajamas. Many b&amp;s stopped by to say hello. Some wanted to initiate conversations, but I feel a little uncomfortable and shy like a newcomer. I also returned to fellowship for the first time on Friday since CNY. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[269,145,19,96,14,142,219,143,122,206,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonylaw.com\/wwwroot\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}