{"id":10738,"date":"2026-10-03T19:13:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10738"},"modified":"2026-10-03T19:13:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T23:13:59","slug":"cocreators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10738","title":{"rendered":"Cocreators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Armas9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Armas9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Armas9.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Armas9-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Armas9-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Armas9-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Armas9-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Navigating this life requires that others hold our hands as we do the hard work of discovering and discerning and imagining who we could be.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean, then, that the Spirit of God is described as playing these exact same roles in our lives: supporter, encourager, and advocate?  A God with a womb may not resonate with all of us as not all of us have birthed, but all of us were birthed once and all of us, in one way or another, are involved in a process of birthing.  As image bearers of the divine, we are thus cocreators &#8211; midwives and doulas &#8211; for one another.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kat Armas, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/sacred_belonging.html\">Sacred Belonging<\/a><\/em>, p. 176<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Monet&#8217;s Garden, Giverny, France, June 22, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating this life requires that others hold our hands as we do the hard work of discovering and discerning and imagining who we could be. What does it mean, then, that the Spirit of God is described as playing these exact same roles in our lives: supporter, encourager, and advocate? A God with a womb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calling","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10740,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10738\/revisions\/10740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}