{"id":1080,"date":"2010-04-20T22:27:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T02:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2010-04-20T22:27:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T02:27:39","slug":"the-process-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"The Process of Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons.  Somehow we&#8217;re going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don&#8217;t come suddenly.  It&#8217;s as if we imagine that all of our spiritual growth potential is dehydrated contents to which we need only add some holy water to make it instantly and easily appear.<\/p>\n<p>I received a letter recently from someone who was feeling impatient about taking the long way round.  She wrote, &#8220;Pole vaulting is so much more alluring than crawling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sue Monk Kidd, <em>When the Heart Waits,<\/em> p. 26<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we&#8217;re going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don&#8217;t come suddenly. It&#8217;s as if we imagine that all of our spiritual growth potential is dehydrated contents to which we need only add some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}