{"id":388,"date":"2017-10-06T07:44:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T12:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=388"},"modified":"2017-10-06T07:44:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T12:44:47","slug":"our-prayers-and-support-for-the-las-vegas-shooting-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/06\/our-prayers-and-support-for-the-las-vegas-shooting-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Our prayers and support for the Las Vegas shooting victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"389\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/06\/our-prayers-and-support-for-the-las-vegas-shooting-victims\/terror-1544416_640\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/terror-1544416_640.jpg?fit=640%2C414\" data-orig-size=\"640,414\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"terror-1544416_640\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/terror-1544416_640.jpg?fit=640%2C414\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-389\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/terror-1544416_640.jpg?resize=300%2C194\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/terror-1544416_640.jpg?resize=300%2C194 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/terror-1544416_640.jpg?w=640 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Like the rest of our nation we are horrified at the events that took place this week with the shootings in Las Vegas.\u00a0 We pray for our country amid the largest domestic gun massacre ever in our history.\u00a0 May God be with the victims and their families as they struggle to recover and may we be there to support them in that recovery.<\/p>\n<p>This is what communities do.\u00a0 Our country can and should continue to strive towards building that sense of shared community &#8211; a community that rises about the divisive and un-civil politics of our day.\u00a0 Here at the LIGHT!\u00a0 labels such as Republican or Democrat are not as important to us as being people who empathize with others, who want to help the &#8220;general welfare&#8221; of all people as it says in our Constitution so that all may enjoy their rights of &#8220;life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness&#8221; as emphatically stated in our amazing Declaration of Independence!\u00a0 Those qualities of empathy, helping, respect and togetherness will only be of help as we tackle our largest problems, such as the Las Vegas shooting as well as Inequality!<\/p>\n<p>Join with us to be caring, compassionate, heart, hands and lips to all who need uplifting when they are down!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s what Jesus would do. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the rest of our nation we are horrified at the events that took place this week with the shootings in Las Vegas.\u00a0 We pray for our country amid the largest domestic gun massacre ever in our history.\u00a0 May God be with the victims and their families as they struggle to recover and may we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-6g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/terror-1544416_640.jpg?fit=640%2C414","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}