{"id":3909,"date":"2018-11-02T21:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T01:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2018-11-02T21:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T01:12:56","slug":"a-slow-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/?p=3909","title":{"rendered":"A Slow Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"graf graf--p\">As I gazed at the landscape that was once plush green, thoughts ricocheted like bullets in my mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">I wondered how leaves changed from being green to brown, orange, red and yellow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">They change and transform by a slow death.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3910\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3910\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3910 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/279257792_6bf7e9cde3_z-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/279257792_6bf7e9cde3_z-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/279257792_6bf7e9cde3_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Creative Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">The result is from the breakdown of chlorophyll, due to the changes in the length of daylight and temperature. The leaves stop their food-making process. The chlorophyll breaks down, the green color disappears, and the yellow to orange colors become visible and give the leaves part of their splendor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">God is the master artist weaving a beautiful tapestry in nature with the ebb and flow of leaves, seasons, tides, births and deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">Watching the leaves turn reminds me of God\u2019s power and my fragility, His strength and my weakness, His immortality and my mortality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">In reality, we are all fallen leaves, dying a slow death.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"graf graf--blockquote graf--startsWithDoubleQuote\"><p>\u201c<em>For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.\u201d James 4:17<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"graf graf--p\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I gazed at the landscape that was once plush green, thoughts ricocheted like bullets in my mind. I wondered how leaves changed from being green to brown, orange, red and yellow. They change and transform by a slow death. The result is from the breakdown of chlorophyll, due to the changes in the length [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10,1516,1471,90],"tags":[1518,1425,328,50,370,1517,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ordinaryservant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}