{"id":399,"date":"2025-04-11T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2025-04-11T21:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:13:05","slug":"olives-and-dust-matthew-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/11\/olives-and-dust-matthew-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Olives and Dust: Matthew 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote the story <em>Olives and Dust<\/em> sometime last year. My daughter had recorded a cover of the 1977 song by Kansas,<em> Dust in the Wind<\/em>, and the words were flowing through my mind as I meditated on Jesus in the garden. The longer I stood watching him, the more I felt my flimsy, fleeting, dusty humanity. Watching a love so substantial, that ran deep rooted as the gnarly trees in the garden, watching that love weep for me and all my kind, I began to wonder at the potential within my dusty self to become that kind of love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus. He is more, so much more than I know yet in his brief humanity and his glorious divinity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somehow as I lean into Matthew 26 I hear him say : <em>so are you Cassie. You are more than you know yet, in your brief humanity, and glorious divinity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I want to say to you, reader, so are you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What we gaze upon, we become like. So this Easter, I&#8217;ve recorded a reading of Olives and Dust, and I&#8217;d like to invite you to linger a little with me, and watch love weep in the garden. In watching we will become a little more like the One we see.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If you&#8217;d prefer to read the original blog, search Olives and Dust, and you&#8217;ll find it here. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olives &amp; Dust\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J6a4r0ZYeY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the story Olives and Dust sometime last year. My daughter had recorded a cover of the 1977 song by Kansas, Dust in the Wind, and the words were flowing through my mind as I meditated on Jesus in the garden. The longer I stood watching him, the more I felt my flimsy, fleeting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403,"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodknowing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}