{"id":59,"date":"2016-04-05T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2016-04-12T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T12:23:11","slug":"seek-to-serve-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/seek-to-serve-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Seek to Serve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, somehow Neil and I have found ourselves in this place, a place where we seek to serve you! This is a blog for those who have stumbled over prayerscapes in some way and found our work to be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the world lifts artists, actors or directors above others. This is skewered vision, as you \u2013 the doctors, teachers, mothers, carers or business people are on the frontline of life. You are the ones who are giving out daily, seeking to be the hands and feet of Jesus in your hometown, workplace or family. So we like to see our creative films, music, prayers and images as something that is there to serve you. Our heart is to bring back hope into hard places, to soothe the hearts of those that walk through tough times, and to create new vision and possibilities for God\u2019s love to be a force of change and restoration across the world.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been a thinker, a dreamer! School teachers would wrestle with me \u2013 the daydreaming girl that didn\u2019t seem present in lessons most of the time! So I thought I might start writing this blog, just sharing the inner life and creative thinking of a prayer woman! My hope is that I might serve you\u2026and bring the treasure of heaven to softly and gently bless you in some small way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, somehow Neil and I have found ourselves in this place, a place where we seek to serve you! This is a blog for those who have stumbled over prayerscapes in some way and found our work to be helpful. Sometimes the world lifts artists, actors or directors above others. This is skewered vision, as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/seek-to-serve-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/dts_laptop_600.jpg?fit=600%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bKxI-X","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":778,"url":"https:\/\/www.prayerscapes.com\/blog\/prayer-for-protection-at-work\/","url_meta":{"origin":59,"position":0},"title":"Prayer for Protection at Work","date":"February 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"When we work, we serve God. 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