{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/656fd0cb4030a60011809ebf/696e78324788cf9ec6fcd57f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Trusting What Is Unfolding","description":"<h2>Scripture</h2><p><strong>Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11 (NRSV)</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>Refrain</h2><p>Teach us to trust, O God,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>the work you are doing in us.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><h2>Quote</h2><p><strong>The Cloud of Unknowing</strong></p><p>“For this is the work of the soul that most pleaseth God,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>to wait in stillness and in trust.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Not striving to see clearly,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>nor desiring to feel greatly,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>but choosing to rest in the dark knowing&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>that God is at work beyond our understanding.</p><p>For love may reach God in this life,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>but knowing never can.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>And therefore, be content to remain in this cloud,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>trusting that God is nearer than you know.”</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"City Arts Dept"}