{"id":1634,"date":"2011-04-07T22:58:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T02:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2011-04-07T23:02:06","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T03:02:06","slug":"unfolding-through-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"Unfolding Through Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is going to take a while&#8221; is one of the earmarks of growing faith.  Faith unfolds through time.  We need faith over and over again, not just once in a great while.  Faith must be our constant companion.  God must be a partner for us, not merely a spiritual pinch hitter to be called in at the bottom of the ninth.  By saying &#8220;This is going to take a while,&#8221; we begin to acknowledge that life is a process and that we are given what we need to undergo that process.  &#8220;Not I but the Father doeth the works&#8221; begins to become our lived experience.  We feel the hand of God acting not only on us but also through us.  We begin to have confidence that God&#8217;s power will flow where it is needed, that we can ask to be tapped into that power and expect that our request for power will be honored.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Julia Cameron, <em>Faith and Will<\/em>, p. 116<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is going to take a while&#8221; is one of the earmarks of growing faith. Faith unfolds through time. We need faith over and over again, not just once in a great while. Faith must be our constant companion. God must be a partner for us, not merely a spiritual pinch hitter to be called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,13,35,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-god","category-growth","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}