{"id":267,"date":"2007-12-26T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T19:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/26\/waiting-as-prayer\/"},"modified":"2007-12-26T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T19:50:40","slug":"waiting-as-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Waiting as Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting is part of ordinary time.\u00c2\u00a0 We discover God in our waiting:\u00c2\u00a0 waiting in checkout lines, waiting for the telephone to ring, waiting for graduation, waiting for a promotion, waiting to retire, waiting to die.\u00c2\u00a0 The waiting itself becomes prayer as we give our waiting to God.\u00c2\u00a0 In waiting we begin to get in touch with the rhythms of life &#8212; stillness and action, listening and decision.\u00c2\u00a0 They are the rhythms of God.\u00c2\u00a0 It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard J. Foster, <em>Prayer, <\/em>p. 174<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting is part of ordinary time.\u00c2\u00a0 We discover God in our waiting:\u00c2\u00a0 waiting in checkout lines, waiting for the telephone to ring, waiting for graduation, waiting for a promotion, waiting to retire, waiting to die.\u00c2\u00a0 The waiting itself becomes prayer as we give our waiting to God.\u00c2\u00a0 In waiting we begin to get in touch [&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-267","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\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}