{"id":244,"date":"2026-04-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=244"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:19:36","slug":"the-text-message-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Connect with Jesus&#8217; Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day in\u00a0October at 8am, <a href=\"http:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpendaYearwithJesus<\/a> will send this text-message:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Heads down, Jesus and disciples shuffle silently in shoulder-to-shoulder traffic up the stairs to the Men&#8217;s Court on Temple Mount.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of anyone who enjoys getting stuck in traffic. And I haven&#8217;t met anyone (yet) who hasn&#8217;t been pleasantly surprised by the thought of Jesus getting stuck in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>There is something life-changing about the intersection of Jesus&#8217; experience with our experience.<\/p>\n<p>Scratch that. Life-changing evokes images of inheriting unexpected millions. There is something day-impacting about the intersection of Jesus&#8217; experience with our own daily activities, especially with the seemingly mundane and boring.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus&#8217; life story reads like ours with wake-up routines, work, meal-times, friendships, conflicts, and even getting stuck in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Pausing to reflect on our shared daily experience with Jesus is more than a pleasant diversion. The significance of Jesus&#8217; life infuses the rhythms of our daily lives with consequence.<\/p>\n<p>No one likes getting stuck in traffic, but getting stuck in traffic with Jesus seems a little more bearable.<\/p>\n<p>Check out an overview of the story at <a href=\"https:\/\/wjes.us\/story-nav.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">wjes.us\/story-nav.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sign-up for the text messages at <a href=\"https:\/\/wjes.us\/signup.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">wjes.us\/signup.php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day in\u00a0October at 8am, SpendaYearwithJesus will send this text-message: Heads down, Jesus and disciples shuffle silently in shoulder-to-shoulder traffic up the stairs to the Men&#8217;s Court on Temple Mount. I can&#8217;t think of anyone who enjoys getting stuck in traffic. And I haven&#8217;t met anyone (yet) who hasn&#8217;t been pleasantly surprised by the thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telling-the-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}