{"id":28,"date":"2026-08-04T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T13:30:36","slug":"august-9-2026-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/04\/august-9-2026-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"August 9, 2026 Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>By Chris Teague<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this upcoming Sunday\u2019s Gospel from Matthew 14:22\u201333, Peter starts to sink when he takes his eyes off Jesus and focuses on the storm around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have done the same thing many times, but especially lately. I have worried about work, about my children, and about things happening in the world that could affect my family, my finances, and the future. In some cases, I have had a little influence over the outcome. In others, none at all. But worrying, losing sleep, and running every possible scenario through my hamster-wheel-of-a-mind mind has never changed the situation.&nbsp;When Peter\u2019s wet-head started spinning he finally did the only thing that mattered. He cried out, \u201cLord, save me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is where I keep coming back to the words of the Divine Mercy prayer: Jesus, I trust in You. I may not be able to control the storm, but I can choose where I place my trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chris Teague In this upcoming Sunday\u2019s Gospel from Matthew 14:22\u201333, Peter starts to sink when he takes his eyes off Jesus and focuses on the storm around him. I have done the same thing many times, but especially lately. I have worried about work, about my children, and about things happening in the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.menofstjoseph.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}