{"id":481,"date":"2010-12-31T09:11:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T09:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/thinplaces\/2010\/12\/favorites-of-2010-dont-you-care-if-we-drown.html"},"modified":"2010-12-31T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T09:11:46","slug":"favorites-of-2010-dont-you-care-if-we-drown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/thinplaces\/2010\/12\/favorites-of-2010-dont-you-care-if-we-drown.html","title":{"rendered":"Favorites of 2010: Don’t You Care if We Drown?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past fall, I wrote a series called “Questions for Jesus,” where I looked at a different Biblical passage in which people ask Jesus questions. My favorite post of the bunch comes from Mark 4, where the disciples ask Jesus, “Don’t you care if we drown<\/a>?” This post relates my own experiences in the early days of Penny’s life, days when I was asking God a similar question. It also relates the ways that question was answered through the gift of Penny’s life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past fall, I wrote a series called “Questions for Jesus,” where I looked at a different Biblical passage in which people ask Jesus questions. 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