{"id":569,"date":"2026-05-18T12:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=569"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:20:20","slug":"now-is-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Now (Is) When"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just returned last night from a week away in OK and TX. The catalyzing reason for the trip was a Quiet Retreat in Sarita, TX with my dear friend (since he was a high school student in the youth group at Colonial Presbyterian when I was the youth minister) Jeff.<br><br>Lots I could write about the whole week, all the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dear<\/span> people I saw, significant conversations I had, and even lots about the retreat, which contained a number of experiences I hadn&#8217;t done before (like four daily offices, or taking meals together with 10 other people in silence, etc.). But I will skip all that and just share a poem that I think encapsulates a good bit of the main thing God was working on in me during the retreat. I had read a short book by Henri Nouwen that contained the line <em>\u201cPrayer is standing in the presence of God with the mind in the heart.\u201d<\/em> (And the title is also a little pun business on Nouwen&#8217;s name haha.)<br><br>And I think that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about that; email me at john@ichthusmhk.org if you want to talk more about it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"259\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/poem-NOW-IS-WHEN.png?resize=259%2C303&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-570\" style=\"width:383px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/poem-NOW-IS-WHEN.png?w=259&amp;ssl=1 259w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/poem-NOW-IS-WHEN.png?resize=256%2C300&amp;ssl=1 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just returned last night from a week away in OK and TX. The catalyzing reason for the trip was a Quiet Retreat in Sarita, TX with my dear friend (since he was a high school student in the youth group at Colonial Presbyterian when I was the youth minister) Jeff. Lots I could write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnwilliamschwartz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}