{"id":10773,"date":"2026-10-18T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10773"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:07:55","slug":"making-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=10773","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boyle63.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boyle63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boyle63.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boyle63-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boyle63-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boyle63-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Boyle63-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I heard a preacher in Lakeside Chautauqua speak of &#8220;the grace of the wooing God who welcomes and includes everybody and brings us all together in Christ.&#8221;  God is infinitely in love with us and wants only to make that connection.  A Trappist nun, before she died, prayed: &#8220;My God &#8211; help me accept how you see me &#8211; no matter how beautiful it is.&#8221;  As my friend Chris Hoch says, &#8220;The homies are used to a &#8216;Department of Corrections&#8217; God.  We want to propose a &#8216;Department of Connections&#8217; God.&#8221;  We are being &#8220;wooed&#8221; to see this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Gregory Boyle, <em>Cherished Belonging<\/em>, p. 25-26<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 9, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a preacher in Lakeside Chautauqua speak of &#8220;the grace of the wooing God who welcomes and includes everybody and brings us all together in Christ.&#8221; God is infinitely in love with us and wants only to make that connection. A Trappist nun, before she died, prayed: &#8220;My God &#8211; help me accept how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,55,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connection","category-delight","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773","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=10773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10775,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10773\/revisions\/10775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}