{"id":1183,"date":"2010-07-21T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2010-07-21T23:02:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:02:51","slug":"spiraling-into-letting-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"Spiraling into Letting Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shifting from a self-centered focus to a more God-centered focus is terribly hard.  I think we&#8217;ve gone wrong by assuming that such a radical movement can be achieved simply by setting our jaw and saying one or two prayers of relinquishment.<\/p>\n<p>Letting go isn&#8217;t one step but many.  It&#8217;s a winding, spiraling process that happens on deep levels.  And we must begin at the beginning:  by confronting our ambivalence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sue Monk Kidd, <em>When the Heart Waits<\/em>, p. 102<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shifting from a self-centered focus to a more God-centered focus is terribly hard. I think we&#8217;ve gone wrong by assuming that such a radical movement can be achieved simply by setting our jaw and saying one or two prayers of relinquishment. Letting go isn&#8217;t one step but many. It&#8217;s a winding, spiraling process that happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-letting-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","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=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}