{"id":281,"date":"2007-12-31T17:55:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/31\/he-is-present\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T17:55:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T21:55:58","slug":"he-is-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"He is Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And yet, paradoxically, during those years of struggle, not believing in him, not seeing him, having no faith at all, I nevertheless felt him there.\u00c2\u00a0 He was present in my anger.\u00c2\u00a0 Present in my loneliness.\u00c2\u00a0 Present in my world&#8217;s refusal to be what I wanted it to be, and present in his own denial of anything I wanted to make him into.\u00c2\u00a0 Present.\u00c2\u00a0 With me.\u00c2\u00a0 Patiently waiting for me to turn and see him.\u00c2\u00a0 And still I struggled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Patty Kirk, <em>Confessions of an Amateur Believer, <\/em>p. 67<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And yet, paradoxically, during those years of struggle, not believing in him, not seeing him, having no faith at all, I nevertheless felt him there.\u00c2\u00a0 He was present in my anger.\u00c2\u00a0 Present in my loneliness.\u00c2\u00a0 Present in my world&#8217;s refusal to be what I wanted it to be, and present in his own denial of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}