{"id":9099,"date":"2025-11-28T19:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/?post_type=uu_services&#038;p=9099"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:29:17","slug":"of-service-and-joy","status":"publish","type":"uu_services","link":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/of-service-and-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Service and Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabindranath Tagore wrote, \u201cI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted \u2014 and behold, service was joy.\u201d This week we draw inspiration from Tagore\u2019s timeless wisdom as we explore service not as duty, but as a path to freedom, meaning, and joy. We\u2019ll reflect on what it means to serve with open hearts, to give without losing ourselves, and to discover joy in connection. Together, we will ask: how does service shape our spiritual journey, and how does joy guide us back to one another?<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s reading is\u00a0from <em>I<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">nciting Joy<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/em>by Ross Gay,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabindranath Tagore wrote, \u201cI slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted \u2014 and behold, service was joy.\u201d This week we draw inspiration from Tagore\u2019s timeless wisdom as we explore service not as duty, but as a path to freedom, meaning, and joy. We\u2019ll reflect on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/services\/of-service-and-joy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Of Service and Joy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"uu_service_speaker":[161],"uu_service_topics":[],"class_list":["post-9099","uu_services","type-uu_services","status-publish","hentry","uu_service_speaker-rev-anthony-mtuaswa-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uu_services"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9100,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_services\/9099\/revisions\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uu_service_speaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_speaker?post=9099"},{"taxonomy":"uu_service_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedonauu.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uu_service_topics?post=9099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}