{"id":13619,"date":"2025-12-24T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13619"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:45:15","slug":"shadow-puppets-encouragement-cafe-december-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=13619","title":{"rendered":"Shadow Puppets &#8211; Encouragement Caf\u00e9 &#8211; December 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, making shadow puppets with family members was a fun and creative activity, but it also taught an important lesson about the power of light in overcoming darkness &#8211; a theme echoed in Psalm 23, which reminds us that God is our light and salvation. In this article, Olivia Barnes explores how Christ&#8217;s presence can provide comfort, guidance, and protection from life&#8217;s shadows, encouraging readers to take hold of God&#8217;s promises and remember that He is always with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child, making shadow puppets with family members was a fun and creative activity, but it also taught an important lesson about the power of light in overcoming darkness &#8211; a theme echoed in Psalm 23, which reminds us that God is our light and salvation. In this article, Olivia Barnes explores how Christ&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[718,2421,268,3965,1041],"class_list":["post-13619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-devotionals","tag-cafe","tag-december","tag-encouragement","tag-puppets","tag-shadow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}