{"id":152,"date":"2007-10-19T20:42:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T00:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/10\/19\/standing-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T20:42:11","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T00:42:11","slug":"standing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Standing in the Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God is all right.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore, why should we mind standing in the dark for a minute outside his window?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course we miss the <em>inness.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 But there is a bliss of its own in waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 What if the rain be falling, and the wind blowing?\u00c2\u00a0 What if we stand alone, or, more painful still, have some dear one beside us, sharing our <em>outness?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 What even if the window be not shining because of the curtains of impenetrable good drawn across it?\u00c2\u00a0 Let us think to ourselves, or say to our friend, &#8216;God is.\u00c2\u00a0 Jesus is not dead.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing can be going wrong, however it may look to our hearts that are unfinished in childness.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let us say to the Lord, &#8216;Jesus areyou loving the Father in there?\u00c2\u00a0 Then we out here will do his will, patiently waiting till he open the door.\u00c2\u00a0 We shall not mind the wind or the rain much&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a word, let us be at peace, because peace is at the heart of things&#8211;peace and utter satisfaction between the Father and the Son &#8212; in which peace they call us to share, in which peace they promise that at length, when they have their good way with us, we <em>shall<\/em> share.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; George MacDonald, Your Life in Christ, p. 51<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God is all right.\u00c2\u00a0 Therefore, why should we mind standing in the dark for a minute outside his window?\u00c2\u00a0 Of course we miss the inness.\u00c2\u00a0 But there is a bliss of its own in waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 What if the rain be falling, and the wind blowing?\u00c2\u00a0 What if we stand alone, or, more painful still, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}