{"id":30841,"date":"2026-01-27T11:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=30841"},"modified":"2026-02-25T08:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:15:56","slug":"the-blessing-in-our-wrestling-2","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/the-blessing-in-our-wrestling-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing in Our Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of years ago, the ancient Israelites told the story of Jacob, who wrestled with an angel and came away wounded, but blessed.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;ll explore what Jacob&#8217;s story has to teach us as this battered, resilient country wrestles with a resurgence of deep, old patterns of violence.\u00a0 What collective blessing might there be in this struggle, even now?<\/p>\n<p>Minister:\u00a0 Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig<br \/>\nWorship Associate:\u00a0 Carolyn Johnson-Gutter<\/p>\n<p>To view this service, click on the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Blessing In Our Wrestling,&quot; led by Rev. Laura Horton-Ludwig\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgjQFSy6DJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of years ago, the ancient Israelites told the story of Jacob, who wrestled with an angel and came away wounded, but blessed.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;ll explore what Jacob&#8217;s story has to teach us as this battered, resilient country wrestles with a resurgence of deep, old patterns of violence.\u00a0 What collective blessing might there be in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/services\/the-blessing-in-our-wrestling-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Blessing in Our Wrestling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-30841","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30915,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/30841\/revisions\/30915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=30841"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uufscc.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=30841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}