{"id":9066,"date":"2012-02-08T01:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=9066"},"modified":"2012-02-08T07:52:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T11:52:33","slug":"work-like-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2012\/02\/08\/work-like-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Like Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/07\/ademir_costa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8333\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/07\/ademir_costa-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/07\/ademir_costa-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/files\/2011\/07\/ademir_costa-1024x659.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<\/em><em>Go to the ant,<span> <\/span>O sluggard,\u00a0study her ways and learn wisdom;\u00a0For though she has no chief,\u00a0no commander or ruler,\u00a0She procures her food in the summer,\u00a0stores up her provisions in the harvest.<\/em>&#8221; (Prov. 6:6-8 NAB)<\/p>\n<p>Once I observed the work of ants that were in the backyard. I remained impressed that they carried leaves tens of times greater than their body and roamed distances that for human beings would be dozens of kilometers. They worked hard to sustain their community. The ants became for me my example of work.<\/p>\n<p>So also I should be. I cannot be lazy in the service of God. I should work as the ants, carrying that little leaf.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, we are going to work as ants in order that we may touch the ends of the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Ademir Costa<\/p>\n<p>Translate from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/diariodeumconsagrado\/2011\/10\/03\/a-formiga\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The author is a Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova missionary and seminarian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Go to the ant, O sluggard,\u00a0study her ways and learn wisdom;\u00a0For though she has no chief,\u00a0no commander or ruler,\u00a0She procures her food in the summer,\u00a0stores up her provisions in the harvest.&#8221; (Prov. 6:6-8 NAB) Once I observed the work of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25555,25556],"tags":[51490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9066"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10060,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9066\/revisions\/10060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}