{"id":2981,"date":"2014-10-07T06:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2016-10-10T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T23:57:23","slug":"feeling-out-of-sorts-this-might-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/feeling-out-of-sorts-this-might-help","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Out of Sorts? This Might Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When life starts to weigh me down and feels off-center, I find that what helps me most is returning to contemplating the life of Jesus. But sometimes I get overwhelmed thinking about all the different events in his life, and I get paralyzed deciding where to begin reading the gospels. When that happens, I often simply pick up a rosary and begin praying the mysteries of Jesus&#8217; life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Rosary01-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Rosary\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Rosary01-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Rosary01-500x374.jpg 500w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Rosary01-900x674.jpg 900w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Rosary01.jpg 1991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The rosary is simple.<br \/>\nThe rosary is peaceful.<br \/>\nThe rosary is soothing.<br \/>\nThe rosary puts me in touch with Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.<br \/>\nMaybe today you&#8217;re feeling out of sorts.<br \/>\nMaybe today you&#8217;re feeling paralyzed about how to begin bringing Jesus back into your life.<br \/>\nMaybe today the rosary can help you like it helps me and countless others.<\/p>\n<p>The feel of the beads through your fingers, the gentle rhythm of the Hail Marys as you murmur them under your breath over and over, the images and sensations of the events of Jesus&#8217; life running through your mind&#8211;praying the rosary brings us back to Jesus, especially when life seems chaotic or confusing.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the rosary is just what we need today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/prayer-and-worship\/prayers-and-devotions\/rosaries\/how-to-pray-the-rosary.cfm\">Click here to reacquaint yourself with how to pray the rosary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When life starts to weigh me down and feels off-center, I find that what helps me most is returning to contemplating the life of Jesus. But sometimes I get overwhelmed thinking about all the different events in his life, and I get paralyzed deciding where to begin reading the gospels. When that happens, I often simply pick up a rosary and begin praying the mysteries of Jesus&#8217; life. The rosary is simple. The rosary is peaceful. The rosary is soothing. The rosary puts me in touch with Jesus.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer","tag-rosary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Rosary01.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-M5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}