{"id":1094,"date":"2012-05-03T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/gc2012\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2012-05-03T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T17:56:08","slug":"reflections-on-this-morning-by-amory-peck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/reflections-on-this-morning-by-amory-peck\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on this Morning by Amory Peck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Post submitted on May 3, 2012\u00a0<strong>by Amory Peck<\/strong>, First Elected Lay Delegate to General Conference and Conference Lay Leader. Amory Peck, the Rev. David Valera, Marie Kuch and Matt Lockett are pictured. Photo by Patrick Scriven<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I had meant to write this morning, but I\u2019d done something to disable my Mac. \u00a0Thanks, Ryan, for helping to get it fixed. \u00a0Now it\u2019s 1:15pm, and I just don\u2019t know what to say.<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m not surprised.<\/em> \u00a0The body has been making decisions that have startled me one after another. \u00a0So, the defeat of all attempts to say \u201cwe don\u2019t agree\u201d on homosexuality isn\u2019t a surprise. \u00a0But, it was still a blow. \u00a0And, the language from one of the African delegates still has me reeling.<\/p>\n<p>Last night Gail, David, Craig, Patrick, and I were sitting and talking. \u00a0We were asking each other what we had experienced that day that had given us joy. \u00a0All the stories \u2014 the only responses \u2014 were about personal encounters and warm moments with allied friends. \u00a0That\u2019s even more true today. \u00a0The only joy comes from shared hugs, tears, and affirmations.<\/p>\n<p>I am eager to be home!<\/p>\n<p>Amory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post submitted on May 3, 2012\u00a0by Amory Peck, First Elected Lay Delegate to General Conference and Conference Lay Leader. Amory Peck, the Rev. David Valera, Marie Kuch and Matt Lockett are pictured. Photo by Patrick Scriven I had meant to write this morning, but I\u2019d done something to disable my Mac. \u00a0Thanks, Ryan, for helping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1095,"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":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pnw-delegation"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/protest-thur-am-120.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-hE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}