{"id":37761,"date":"2018-04-10T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=37761"},"modified":"2018-04-10T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T23:15:34","slug":"that-time-president-nelson-released-me-from-the-pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/that-time-president-nelson-released-me-from-the-pulpit\/","title":{"rendered":"That time President Nelson released me from the pulpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37764 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FlightPath-800x382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FlightPath-800x382.jpg 800w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FlightPath-360x172.jpg 360w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FlightPath-260x124.jpg 260w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FlightPath-160x76.jpg 160w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FlightPath.jpg 1044w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>One week before general conference I got up in High Priest Group and conducted the meeting for the first time. We&#8217;d moved into the ward six months ago and I&#8217;d just been called as the new group leader. Sunday the Stake Presidency called me in and officially released me. We all thought it was pretty funny. No one seemed to be bothered by the fact that a calling we&#8217;d expected to last for some time was over so soon. \u00a0Certainly that calling and a couple weeks in it taught me something. \u00a0Perhaps it even helped somebody else. What looks like a bizarre flight path on a two dimensional map can look very natural in three dimensions. What seems strange to us is obvious to God.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One week before general conference I got up in High Priest Group and conducted the meeting for the first time. We&#8217;d moved into the ward six months ago and I&#8217;d just been called as the new group leader. Sunday the Stake Presidency called me in and officially released me. We all thought it was pretty funny. No one seemed to be bothered by the fact that a calling we&#8217;d expected to last for some time was over so soon. \u00a0Certainly that calling and a couple weeks in it taught me something. \u00a0Perhaps it even helped somebody else. What looks like a bizarre flight path on a two dimensional map can look very natural in three dimensions. What seems strange to us is obvious to God. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":37764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/FlightPath.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37768,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37761\/revisions\/37768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}