{"id":264,"date":"2007-12-22T22:59:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-23T02:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/22\/our-vocation-as-prayer\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T22:59:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-23T02:59:37","slug":"our-vocation-as-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=264","title":{"rendered":"Our Vocation as Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our vocation is an asset to prayer because our work <em>becomes <\/em>prayer.\u00c2\u00a0 It is prayer in action.\u00c2\u00a0 The artist, the novelist, the surgeon, the plumber, the secretary, the lawyer, the homemaker, the farmer, the teacher &#8212; all are praying by offering their work up to God&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>We do not need to have good feelings or a warm glow in order to do work for the glory of God.\u00c2\u00a0 All good work is pleasing to the Father.\u00c2\u00a0 Even the jobs that seem meaningless and mindless to us are highly valued in the order of the kingdom of God.\u00c2\u00a0 God values the ordinary.\u00c2\u00a0 If, for the glory of God, you are putting an endless supply of nuts on an endless line of bolts, your work is rising up as a sweet-smelling offering to the throne of God.\u00c2\u00a0 He is pleased with your labor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard J. Foster, <em>Prayer, <\/em>p. 171-173<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our vocation is an asset to prayer because our work becomes prayer.\u00c2\u00a0 It is prayer in action.\u00c2\u00a0 The artist, the novelist, the surgeon, the plumber, the secretary, the lawyer, the homemaker, the farmer, the teacher &#8212; all are praying by offering their work up to God&#8230;. We do not need to have good feelings or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","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=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}