{"id":3059,"date":"2012-12-21T20:47:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T00:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3059"},"modified":"2012-12-21T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T00:50:32","slug":"bathed-in-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3059","title":{"rendered":"Bathed in Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In prayer, I see the suffering bathed in light.  In God, there is no darkness.  I see God&#8217;s light permeate them, soak into them, guide their feet.  I <em>want<\/em> to tell God what to do:  &#8220;Look, Pal, this is a catastrophe.  You have <em>got<\/em> to shape up.&#8221;  But it wouldn&#8217;t work.  So I pray for people who are hurting, that they be filled with air and light.  Air and light heal; they somehow get into those dark, musty places, like spiritual antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Anne Lamott, <em>Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers<\/em>, p. 16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In prayer, I see the suffering bathed in light. In God, there is no darkness. I see God&#8217;s light permeate them, soak into them, guide their feet. I want to tell God what to do: &#8220;Look, Pal, this is a catastrophe. You have got to shape up.&#8221; But it wouldn&#8217;t work. So I pray for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-healing","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059","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=3059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}