{"id":2659,"date":"2012-06-18T23:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2012-06-18T23:03:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:03:42","slug":"not-a-traffic-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"Not a Traffic Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking beside others is what we are here to do.  That&#8217;s why others have gathered.  But walking side by side is far different than pushing our specific direction on someone else.  If our motive is to express joy about another&#8217;s journey, allowing her or him to have what fits for them, we are fulfilling God&#8217;s will for us.  If, instead, we are directing traffic, we have usurped God&#8217;s role in their lives, and it&#8217;s time to back off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Karen Casey, <em>Let Go Now<\/em>, p. 77<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking beside others is what we are here to do. That&#8217;s why others have gathered. But walking side by side is far different than pushing our specific direction on someone else. If our motive is to express joy about another&#8217;s journey, allowing her or him to have what fits for them, we are fulfilling God&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,13,8,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-god","category-joy","category-letting-go","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","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=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}