{"id":481,"date":"2010-05-17T17:54:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2010-11-06T17:30:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T21:30:45","slug":"quiet-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"Quiet Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As he walked through the parking lot on the way to the shooting range, my son placed the hearing protectors over his ears.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/quiet_ears.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-484\" title=\"quiet_ears\" src=\"http:\/\/markspruill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/quiet_ears.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s quiet,&#8221; he quipped.\u00a0 &#8220;This would be a good place to pray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked at him and smiled.\u00a0 It struck me kind of funny that he could stand in the parking lot, simply covering his hears, and suddenly\u00a0declare himself transported\u00a0to a place of prayer.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t that he was in a quiet place, it was just that he had made his place quiet.\u00a0\u00a0Sam was right.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the perfect attitude for talking with God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As he walked through the parking lot on the way to the shooting range, my son placed the hearing protectors over his ears.\u00a0 &#8220;It&#8217;s quiet,&#8221; 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