{"id":1873,"date":"2018-07-21T20:13:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T01:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T03:36:01","slug":"mayors-prayer-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scene from movie “The Blindside”<\/p><\/div>\n

Over three hundred people showed up at 6:15 a.m. yesterday for the 47th Annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast in downtown Fort Smith to honor Christ and those in authority in our region.<\/p>\n

An energetic young man, SJ Tuohy, the real younger brother behind the character in the movie “The Blindside<\/em>,” was our speaker. He had a lot of really good things to say, but his speed in talking made me doubt he was really from the South.:)<\/p>\n

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Michael Oher with adopted Tuohy Parents<\/p><\/div>\n

Here are some insightful things he said relating to life, living, and faith — which may not be exactly correct due to his speed in speaking or my slowness in hearing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

“Be where your feet are.” “Be in the game! You can’t make a difference if you’re not in the game.””It hurts when you get pinched — you\u2019re injured with a broken arm. You can play hurt — you can\u2019t play injured. And the great part about being a Christian is that we are ALL hurt , but NONE of us are injured. You are never beyond grace and mercy. You just gotta make the choice to get in the game.”<\/p>\n

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New Friends Greet & Visit with “SJ” Sean Tuohy<\/p><\/div>\n

He talked about how people today have so divided themselves from others over race, gender, politics, etc., then said, “If how you define yourself, divides you from others, then your definition of yourself is too small.”<\/p>\n

“Value people. Value others. There are Michael Ohers in this room — in and around your lives. You typically avoid them. Jesus didn’t! He spent time with them.”<\/p>\n

He never got around to the topics of “kindness and hard work” as mentioned in his bio; but come to think about it — he did! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Thanks for coming SJ Tuohy! And for sharing your heart and life with us. May the Lord bless you and yours continually. Godspeed on your journey at the U of A, and through life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe <\/span>Lord\u00a0<\/span>bless you and keep you;<\/span>The <\/span>Lord\u00a0<\/span>make His face shine upon you, A<\/span>nd be gracious to you;<\/span>The <\/span>Lord\u00a0<\/span>lift up His countenance upon you,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>And give you peace.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(Numbers 6:24\u201326<\/span>, NKJV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over three hundred people showed up at 6:15 a.m. yesterday for the 47th Annual Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast in downtown Fort Smith to honor Christ and those in authority in our region. An energetic young man, SJ Tuohy, the real younger brother behind the character in the movie “The Blindside,” was our speaker. He had a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-be-a-leader","category-be-a-man","category-bread-for-the-spirit","category-kingdom-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afriendoftheking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}