{"id":1399,"date":"2021-04-13T01:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2021-04-15T01:50:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T01:50:02","slug":"conflict-and-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/conflict-and-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflict and Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">Brothers and sisters, we do see too much conflict, anger, and general incivility around us. Fortunately, the current generation has not had a Third World War to fight, nor have we experienced a global economic crash like the one in 1929 leading to a Great Depression. We are, however, facing a kind of Third World War that is <em>not<\/em> a fight to crush our enemies but a conscription marshaling the children of God to care more about each other and to help heal the wounds we find in a conflicted world. The Great Depression we now face has less to do with the external loss of our savings and more to do with the internal loss of our self-confidence, with real deficits of faith and hope and charity all around us. But the instruments we need to create a brighter day and grow an economy of genuine goodness in society are abundantly provided for in the gospel of Jesus Christ. We cannot afford\u2014and this <em>world<\/em> cannot afford\u2014our failure to put these gospel concepts and fortifying covenants to full use personally and publicly. \u2013 <em>Jeffrey R. Holland, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2021\/04\/23holland?lang=eng\">Not as the World Giveth<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 2021<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers and sisters, we do see too much conflict, anger, and general incivility around us. Fortunately, the current generation has not had a Third World War to fight, nor have we experienced a global economic crash like the one in 1929 leading to a Great Depression. We are, however, facing a kind of Third World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[321,512],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-civility","tag-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}