{"id":11999,"date":"2016-12-19T08:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.richardlittledale.co.uk\/?p=11999"},"modified":"2016-12-19T08:40:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:40:55","slug":"whos-looking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2016\/12\/19\/whos-looking\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s looking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>A switch in perspective<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Around this time of year somebody like me is bound to be asked something like this: <em>&#8216;don&#8217;t you disapprove of all the stuff and nonsense surrounding Christmas&#8217;<\/em>?\u00a0 In fact, I was asked something very similar on a live radio show a couple of weeks ago. My answer would generally be that I do not disapprove. After all, if God could be found &#8216;in amongst the mess&#8217; on the first Christmas, why should the same not be true now? A God who can be found in a feeding trough of a borrowed shed on the back of a pub could surely be found in amongst the tinsel too?<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, though, Christmas is surely more about God finding <em>us<\/em> than the other way around? It is all about Him going to inordinate lengths and crossing an inconceivable gulf to find us. Christmas is about God speaking <em>our<\/em> language that he might be understood. It was in order to make exactly that point that I used the advert below during last night&#8217;s carol service. See what you think&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D6jdakVLl6c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A switch in perspective Around this time of year somebody like me is bound to be asked something like this: &#8216;don&#8217;t you disapprove of all the stuff and nonsense surrounding Christmas&#8217;?\u00a0 In fact, I was asked something very similar on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/2016\/12\/19\/whos-looking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12004,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11999\/revisions\/12004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.12\/richardlittledale.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}